Pressure groups may use bribes, violence, or a combination of both to bend politics to their will, and the choice between these methods of influence can vary depending on the type of institutional regime. We empirically investigate the dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in...

This paper develops a model featuring both a macroeconomic and a financial friction that speaks to the interaction between monetary and macro-prudential policies. There are two main results. First, real interest rate rigidities in a monopolistic banking system have an asymmetric impact on...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Guest Editorial "Econometrics of Anonymized Micro Data" -- Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonparametric Regression Models / Lechner, Sandra / Pohlmeier, Winfried -- The Effect of Microaggregation Procedures...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Basics Of Time Value Of Money -- Chapter 3: Valuation Of Cash Flows, Annuities And Perpetuities -- Chapter 4: Sources And Cost Of Long-Term Capital -- Chapter 5: Valuation Of Fixed Income Securities -- Chapter 6: Valuation Of Equities -- Chapter 7: Firm...