Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key...

We analyze the distributional properties of ownership concentration measures and find that measures come from different underlying statistical distributions. Consistent with theory, some measures that are classified to represent a monitoring dimension have a positive influence on firm performance;...

The need to focus on banks' funding structure and stress testing in an explicit way arose as a consequence of the crisis of past decades. Liquidity risks usually occur as a consequence of other kinds of risks, hence analysing scenarios in a prospective manner is essential for the assessment if...

The purpose of this paper is to study how different funding mechanisms affect donors' and fundraisers' incentives in crowdfunding markets – the Internet platforms that have revolutionized fundraising. In the first mechanism (All-or-Nothing), fundraisers receive the donations they raise only if...

In multi-country studies, researchers frequently extract data in a single currency rather than in native currencies. This approach can be misleading for financial analysts' forecasts in the euro zone when researchers are using the IBES database. We suspect that forecasts of earnings before the...

John Kwoka's Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies is a meta-analysis of “retrospective” academic studies of consummated mergers and other horizontal arrangements. Based on this meta-analysis, Kwoka strongly criticizes federal enforcement policies, claiming that the agencies permit far too...

The possible endogeneity of labor and capital in production functions, and the consequent bias of the estimated elasticities, has been discussed and addressed in the literature in different ways since the 1940s. This paper revisits an argument first outlined in the 1950s, which questioned...

Bank of Italy data managers check the market notices published daily by the Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana) and select those of interest to update the Bank of Italy's Securities Database. This activity is time-consuming and prone to errors should a data manager overlook a relevant...

In the context of the data quality management of supervisory banking data, the Bank of Italy receives a significant number of data reports at various intervals from Italian banks. If any anomalies are found, a quality remark is sent back, questioning the data submitted. This process can lead to...