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The Corporate Choice between Public Debt, Bank Loans, Traditional Private Debt Placements, and 144A Debt Issues
Arena, Matteo - 2010
The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and...
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14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2002
Temin, Peter - 2002
Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study three macroeconomic policy problems in depth. Possible topics include long-run economic growth, the macroeconomics of the transition to a modern capitalist society, federal government surpluses and deficits, Social Security, the distribution of earnings...
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Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing
Gulati, Mitu; Buchheit, Lee C. - 2010
There are three reasons for attempting to reach a common understanding of the responsibilities of sovereign borrowers and their lenders. First, the flow of capital to sovereign debtors is exceptionally important to the world economy. Industrialized countries rely on it to finance their budget...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Policy: An Economic Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
Es ist noch immer nicht endgültig geklärt, wie fiskalische Dezentralisierung die Höhe und Struktur der öffentlichen Ausgaben beeinflusst. Diese Dissertation analysiert daher zwei zusammenhängende Fragen. Erstens werden die Auswirkungen der fiskalischen Dezentralisierung auf die...
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The Summer Teen Job Market in 2005 and the Predicted Outlook for 2006: Implications of Summer Employment for Jobs for America's Graduate's Programs
McLaughlin, Joseph; Sum, Andrew; Fogg, Neeta - 2006
The paper will begin with a brief review of the employment concepts and measures underlying all of the employment estimates appearing in this paper and the data sources used to generate these teen employment rate estimates. Trends in the employment rates of the teens of the nation from the...
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Financialization: What it is and Why it Matters
Palley, Thomas I. - 2007
Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions and financial elites gain greater … influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic system at both the … contribute to wage stagnation. Additionally, there are reasons to believe that financialization may render the economy prone to …
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Financialization and Capital Accumulation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the U.S. Economy: 1973-2003
Orhangazi, Özgür - 2007
Recent research has explored the growing ‘financialization’ process in the U.S. and other advanced economies. The term … explore the relationship between financialization in the U.S economy and real investment at the firm level. Using data from a … financialization. First, increased financial investment and increased financial profit opportunities may have crowded out real …
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Essays on financial behavior and its macroeconomic causes and implications
Ryoo, Soon - 2009
dynamics, fluctuate around the long waves. The second essay,“Macroeconomic Implications of Financialization,” examines …
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