whether depositors monitor their banks and withdraw their savings deposits whenever the fundamentals of their bank are no … longer satisfactory. We use a panel of bank-specific data on 250 Swiss banks over the period 1987-1998. We find considerable … evidence of market discipline, in the sense that depositors are sensitive to bank-specific fundamentals, to institutional …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

of the past is that the outcome, in terms of growth, distribution, and employment, depends on how a country remains in …

, distinguishing between the productivity and the discrimination hypotheses. We analyze employment, income, and sickness absence … significant employment penalty. Both genders experience a significant income penalty for obesity. We conclude that the penalties …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

In Eastern Europe a substantial share of bank deposits are denominated in foreign currency. Deposit euroization poses …

their analysis bank-specific risk variables as measures of cross-sectional derived deposit demand. The authors find that … when bank-specific risk variables are included in the analysis the magnitude of the relationship between deposit rates and … between a bank’s risk profile and the structure of the market in which it operates. These results suggest that it may be …

Gender budgeting is a public financial management (PFM) tool, used to ensure accountability mechanisms. The analysis of …

Bangladesh has made significant progress in health indicators in recent years in spite of her low level of income. This … focuses on accountability links between different actors and functions of delegation, finance, performance, information and …

The paper develops a communication game that is applied to the question of central bank policy and independence. The … (politics), an agent (central bank) and an observer (financial market participants). The extent of the welfare losses depends on …