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that women may face higher costs of adopting and using digital tools. Thus, it is unclear to what extent female … likely to use digital tools for internal firm management (e.g., finance). However, women who face higher levels of non … tool use than their male counterparts. We find this relationship is primarily driven by women who start firms in countries …
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This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success … status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes on gender issues. Female labor force participation and educational … professionals may have leveled the playing field for poorer countries. But the historical record for women's medal achievement is …
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This empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and...
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The role of development finance institutions in low-income and emerging countries is fundamental to provide long-term capital for investments in climate mitigation and adaptation. Nevertheless, development finance institutions still lack sound and transparent metrics to assess the exposure of...
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literature by investigating the role of ESG investing in market turbulence for the case of China. To that end, we examine the … performance of ESG equity indices and compare against their benchmarks amid market turmoil in China, which were triggered in …
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excitement of potential gain is disconnected from anxiety about potential consequences, producing groupthink and bubbles. When …
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excitement of potential gain is disconnected from the anxiety of potential consequences; producing groupthink and bubbles. When …
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This chapter surveys the literature on bubbles, financial crises, and systemic risk. The first part of the chapter … provides a brief historical account of bubbles and financial crisis. The second part of the chapter gives a structured overview … of the literature on financial bubbles. The third part of the chapter discusses the literatures on financial crises and …
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We study credit ratings on subprime and Alt-A mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) deals issued between 2001 and 2007, the period leading up to the subprime crisis. The fraction of highly rated securities in each deal is decreasing in mortgage credit risk (measured either ex ante or ex post),...
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