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Academic scholarship in light of the 2008 financial crisis: Textual analysis of NBER Working Papers

Levy, Daniel; Mayer, Tamir; Raviv, Alon - 2020

Textual analysis of the NBER Working Papers published during 1999-2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2007-2009 crisis on the academic literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics, Asset-Pricing,...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a … social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media … networks they create, as well as individual characteristics and media consumption choices. …

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Trust in Banks? Evidence from normal times and from times of crises

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Trust in financial institutions is of great importance for financial intermediation. Against this background, we study two questions: Has trust in banks declined during the global financial crisis and what factors determine the level of trust in banks? Employing survey evidence from Austrian...

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Debt and financial crises

Koh, Wee Chian; Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 2020

Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and...

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Can this time be different? Policy options in times of rising debt

Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, Franziska; … - 2020

Episodes of debt accumulation have been a recurrent feature of the global economy over the past fifty years. Since 2010, emerging and developing economies have experienced another wave of historically large and rapid debt accumulation. Similar past debt buildups have often ended in widespread...

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Predicting re-employment: Machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of RE6. Second, their caseworkers revealed whether they...

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Indian Economic Outlook 2008-09 and 2009-10

Kumar, Rajiv - 2009

This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of the extraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has now transformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Indian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...

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The perils of working with Big Data and a SMALL framework you can use to avoid them

Brave, Scott A.; Butters, R. Andrew; Fogarty, Michael - 2020

The use of "Big Data" to explain fluctuations in the broader economy or guide the business decisions of a firm is now so commonplace that in some instances it has even begun to rival more traditional government statistics and business analytics. Big data sources can very often provide advantages...

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Placement Optimization in Refugee Resettlement

Trapp, Andrew C.; Teytelboym, Alexander; Martinello, … - 2020

Every year tens of thousands of refugees are resettled to dozens of host countries. While there is growing evidence that the initial placement of refugee families profoundly affects their lifetime outcomes, there have been few attempts to optimize resettlement decisions. We integrate machine...

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News media vs. FRED-MD for macroeconomic forecasting

Ellingsen, Jon; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif … - 2020

Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real-time out-of-sample forecasting comparison study with one of the most widely used data sets in the newer forecasting literature, namely the FRED-MD dataset. Focusing on U.S. GDP,...

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