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This paper explores how financial frictions and financial shocks can contribute to jobless recoveries. We incorporate financial frictions and financial shocks into a real business cycle model in which firms determine not only their investment in capital and employment of workers, but also...
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We investigate how the shift in private pension coverage from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) retirement plans since the 1980s has contributed to the substantial rise in labor force participation of older Americans. We develop a life cycle model of retirement that captures...
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Previous studies show that economic policy uncertainty has been rising steadily since the 1960s (Baker et al. 2014), and that this secular increase has led to harmful economic outcomes such as reduced investment rates (Gulen and Ion 2016). Other studies find that politically connected directors...
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We examine the effect of Top Management Team (TMT) professional finance experience on firm investment efficiency. Top managers with a career background in finance help reduce deviations of investment from the level warranted by firm fundamentals. Reductions in investment inefficiencies are...
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The rapid pace of digitalization has given rise to concerns about its influence on job roles. Our findings reveal a substitution effect on accounting employees. This effect is more evident in private firms, firms with higher levels of digital transformation in their accounting departments, firms...
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We provide a competing theory of why financial intermediaries securitize their assets. We build a dynamic general equilibrium model of bank competition in which banks face a trade-off between the lending rate and the number of potential projects. Competing for projects, banks decrease their...
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