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The heterogeneous impact of referrals on labor market outcomes
Lester, Benjamin; Rivers, David A.; Topa, Giorgio - 2021
We document a new set of facts regarding the impact of referrals on labor market outcomes. Our results highlight the … importance of distinguishing between different types of referrals-those from family and friends and those from business contacts …-and different occupations. Then we develop an on-the-job search model that incorporates referrals and calibrate the model to key …
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The heterogeneous impact of referrals on labor market outcomes
Lester, Benjamin; Rivers, David A.; Topa, Giorgio - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012744660
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Unsecured and secured funding
Di Filippo, Mario; Ranaldo, Angelo; Wrampelmeyer, Jan - 2018
We empirically investigate why wholesale funding is fragile by providing the first study of how individual banks borrow and lend in the euro unsecured and secured interbank market. Consistent with theories in which lenders enforce market discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and...
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Frictional asset reallocation under adverse selection
Madison, Florian - 2018 - Revised version
The aim of this paper is to study asset reallocation in financial markets subject to search, bargaining, and information frictions, and to analyze the impact of monetary policy on equilibrium outcomes. The main results show that private information regarding the quality of an asset impairs its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790391
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Price customization and targeting in many-to-many matching markets
Gomes, Renato; Pavan, Alessandro - 2018
Recent technologies permit matching intermediaries to engage in unprecedented levels of targeting. Yet, regulators fear that the welfare gains of such targeting be hindered by the high degree of price customization practiced by matching intermediaries, whereby prices finely depend on the...
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Why bank money creation?
Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
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A model of tiered settlement networks
Chapman, James (contributor); Chiu, Jonathan (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper develops a model of settlement system to study the endogenous structure of settlement networks, and the …
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The IT Revolution and the Unsecured Credit Market
Sánchez, Juan M. - 2011
Consumer bankruptcies rose sharply over the last 20 years in the U.S. economy. During the same period, there was impressive technological progress in the information sector (the IT revolution). At the same time, pricing of unsecured debt changed dramatically. The dispersion of interest rates...
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Asymmetric Information in Credit Markets, Bank Leverage Cycles and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Rannenberg, Ansgar - 2012
I add a moral hazard problem between banks and depositors as in Gertler and Karadi (2009) to a DSGE model with a costly state verification problem between entrepreneurs and banks as in Bernanke et al. (1999) (BGG). This modification amplifies the response of the external finance premium and the...
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The Information Technology Revolution and the Unsecured Credit Market
Sanchez, Juan M. - 2023
The information technology (IT) revolution coincided with the transformation of the U.S. unsecured credit market. From 1983 to 2004 households’ unsecured borrowing increased rapidly and there was a even faster increase in the number of bankruptcy filings. To study the effect of information...
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