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Do firms mitigate climate impact on employment? : evidence from US heat shocks

Acharya, Viral V.; Bhardwaj, Abhishek; Tomunen, Tuomas - 2023

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Do Firms Mitigate Climate Impact on Employment? Evidence from US Heat Shocks

Acharya, Viral V.; Bhardwaj, Abhishek; Tomunen, Tuomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do firms mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on employment? Using establishment-level data, we show that … firms operating in multiple counties in the United States respond to heat shocks by reducing employment in the affected … employment but induces a spatial redistribution of economic activity …

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Finance and Efficiency: Do Bank Branching Regulations Matter?

Acharya, Viral V.; Imbs, Jean; Sturgess, Jason - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

We use portfolio theory to quantify the efficiency of state-level sectoral patterns of production in the United States. On the basis of observed growth in sectoral value-added output, we calculate for each state the efficient frontier for investments in the real economy. We study how rapidly...

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How do global banks scramble for liquidity? Evidence from the asset-backed commercial paper freeze of 2007

Acharya, Viral V.; Afonso, Gara; Kovner, Anna - 2013

In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial banks in the United States raised deposits and...

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The Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III: Intentions, unintended consequences, and lessons for emerging markets

Acharya, Viral V. - 2012

This paper is an attempt to explain the changes to finance sector reforms under the Dodd-Frank Act in the United States and Basel III requirements globally; their unintended consequences; and lessons for currently fast-growing emerging markets concerning finance sector reforms, government...

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Does the lack of financial stability impair the transmission of monetary policy?

Acharya, Viral V.; Imbierowicz, Björn; Steffen, Sascha; … - 2019

capital expenditures, and lower employment. Overall, our results suggest that banks' capital constraints at the time of an …

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Does the lack of financial stability impair the transmission of monetary policy?

Acharya, Viral V.; Imbierowicz, Björn; Steffen, Sascha; … - 2019

borrowers, leading to lower payouts, capital expenditures and employment. Overall, our results suggest that banks' capital …

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Exorbitant privilege? Quantitative easing and the bond market subsidy of prospective fallen angels

Acharya, Viral V.; Banerjee, Ryan; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

the sluggish adjustment of credit ratings in downgrading after M&A and adversely affecting competitors' employment and …

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Risk-sharing and the creation of systemic risk

Acharya, Viral V.; Iyer, Aaditya M.; Sundaram, Rangarajan K. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 8, pp. 1-18

We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...

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Zombie credit and (dis-)inflation: Evidence from Europe

Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - 2020

We show that "zombie credit" - cheap credit to impaired firms - has a disinflationary effect. By helping distressed firms to stay afloat, such credit creates excess production capacity, thereby putting downward pressure on product prices. Granular European data on inflation, firms, and banks...

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