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Are political activists preferentially targeted by politicians engaging in clientelistic transfers to bolster political support? We provide the first model to highlight two possible rationales for such transfers: to mobilize support from the activists themselves, or to mobilize support from...
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Bargaining and mortgage financing have been extensively studied in the literature. However, they have only been studied separately. This paper is the first to embed financing into a bargaining model, and our model yields several new insights. First, we show that financing creates new ground for...
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This paper examines the relation between bank branch deregulation and corporate borrowers' stock price crash risk. Using a large sample of U.S. public firms over the period 1962-2001, we provide robust evidence that intrastate branch reform reduces firms' stock price crash risk. Our finding is...
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Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....
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