Showing 1 - 10 of 17
We provide evidence that the distributions of consumption, labor income, wealth, and capital income exhibit asymptotic power-law behavior with a strict ranking of upper tail inequality, in that order, from the least to the most unequal. We show analytically and quantitatively that the canonical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480446
In this paper we analyze Minskian dynamics in the US economy via an empirical application of Minsky's financing regime classifications to a panel of nonfinancial corporations. First, we map Minsky's definitions of hedge, speculative and Ponzi finance onto firm-level data to describe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788911
This paper proposes a method to calculate undistributed profits, thus saving rates of non-financial firms using only the information given in their balance sheets. This allows us to analyze the saving behavior of non-financial firms even in the absence of their statement of cash flows, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060202
There is a strong general concern amongst policymakers worldwide that multinational enterprises engage in far-reaching tax-planning activities. It is generally thought that by using transfer pricing or other techniques to shift profits, multinational enterprises can avoid taxation and thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208760
systematically reduce their outstanding short-term debt on quarterly and annual disclosure dates. Constraints on CP lending supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373826
This paper studies the incentives for interim voluntary disclosure of verifiable information in probabilistic all … strong-form disclosure principle is robust with respect to correlation, partitional evidence, randomized disclosures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333781
their costs are below the expected mean cost. Disclosure reduces consumer surplus when the disclosing firm's costs are below … the expected mean cost. The effect of disclosure on social welfare depends on the parameters of the problem. Finally, I … analyze the incentive of firms to agree to exchange information when disclosure exposes a firm to the risk of antitrust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334280
Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420557
Sellers often have the power to censor the reviews of their products. We explore the effect of these censorship policies in markets where some consumers are unaware of possible censorship. We find that if the share of such "naive" consumers is not too large, then rational consumers treat any bad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969218
Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663172