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Segmentation, Advertising And Prices
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the implications of market segmentation on firm competitiveness. In contrast to earlier work, here market segmentation is minimal in the sense that it is based on consumer...
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Training And Hiring Strategies To Improve Firm Performance
October 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study how upgrading skills of personnel affects a firm's performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation...
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Economic Growth And The Volatility Of Foreign Aid
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Foreign aid's effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy. The authors examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid....
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The Impact Of Monetary Policy On Economic Activity - Evidence From A Meta-analysis
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the findings a meta-analysis identifying the causes of variation in the impact of monetary policies on economic development. The sample of observations included in the authors'...
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The Impact Of Cross-Border Banking On Financial Stability
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the stability aspects of cross-border banking. The authors first argue that cross-border banking brings about various benefits and costs for financial stability. Based on...
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CDOs And The Financial Crisis: Credit Ratings And Fair Premia
February 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper uses the market-standard Gaussian copula model to show that fair spreads on CDO tranches are much higher than fair spreads on similarly-rated corporate bonds. It implies that credit...
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The Financial Trilemma
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The financial trilemma states that financial stability, financial integration and national financial policies are incompatible. Any two of the three objectives can be combined but not all three;...
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Measuring Financial Market Integration Over The Long Run: Is There A U-Shape?
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using long time series for sovereign bond markets of fifteen industrialized economies from 1875 to 2009, the author finds that financial market integration by the end of the 20th century was...
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Happiness And Financial Satisfaction In Israel: Effects Of Religiosity, Ethnicity, And War
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. The data set is the Israeli...
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Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality In Health, Health Care And Health Financing By Means Of Rank- Dependent Indices: A Recipe For Good Practice
August 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to...
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Bank Ownership And Financial Stability
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study how political choices on the allocation of bank control affect bank instability. The political trade o¤ between lobby contributions and social welfare is determined by political...
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Strategic Versus Financial Investors: The Role Of Strategic Objectives In Financial Contracting
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities....
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Coordination Frictions And The Financial Crisis
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author argues that the desirability of fiscal policy in response to the current crisis depends on whether one views the current crisis as a temporary deviation from a unique...
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Health, Financial Incentives And Retirement In Spain
October 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are...
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Positive Expectations Feedback Experiments And Number Guessing Games As Models Of Financial Markets
August 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In repeated number guessing games choices typically converge quickly to the Nash equilibrium. In positive expectations feedback experiments, however, convergence to the equilibrium price tends to...
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The Importance Of Financial Incentives On Retirement Choices: New Evidence For Italy
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This dataset contains - for the first time in Italy - information on seniority. In...
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The Political Economy Of Financial Systems
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access...
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An Ascending Multi-Item Auction With Financially Constrained Bidders
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
A number of heterogeneous items are to be sold to a group of potential bidders. Every bidder knows his own values over the items and his own budget privately. Due to budget constraint, bidders may...
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Self-Financing Roads
September 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mohring and Harwitz (1962) showed that, under certain conditions, an optimally designed and priced road would generate user toll revenues just sufficient to cover its capital costs. Several...
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US And European Household Debt And Credit Constraints
November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not...
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Weak & Strong Financial Fragility
December 21, 2006, 12:00am PST
The financial system is inherently fragile due to its exposure to common and mutual risks and in particular due to the duration mismatch of the assets and liabilities of the banking sector....
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The Formation Of Financial Networks
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Modern banking systems are highly interconnected. Despite their various benefits, the linkages that exist between banks carry the risk of contagion. In this paper, the authors investigate how...
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Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness Among Smart High-Tech Companies
August 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge...
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Is Transparency To No Avail? Committee Decision-Making, Pre-Meetings, And Credible Deals
July 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions,...
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Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness Among Smart High-Tech Companies
August 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
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White Papers
The Formation Of Financial Networks
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Modern banking systems are highly interconnected. Despite their various benefits, the linkages that exist between banks carry the risk of contagion. In this paper, the authors investigate how...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Weak & Strong Financial Fragility
December 21, 2006, 12:00am PST
The financial system is inherently fragile due to its exposure to common and mutual risks and in particular due to the duration mismatch of the assets and liabilities of the banking sector....
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
US And European Household Debt And Credit Constraints
November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Self-Financing Roads
September 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mohring and Harwitz (1962) showed that, under certain conditions, an optimally designed and priced road would generate user toll revenues just sufficient to cover its capital costs. Several...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
An Ascending Multi-Item Auction With Financially Constrained Bidders
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
A number of heterogeneous items are to be sold to a group of potential bidders. Every bidder knows his own values over the items and his own budget privately. Due to budget constraint, bidders may...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
The Political Economy Of Financial Systems
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
The Importance Of Financial Incentives On Retirement Choices: New Evidence For Italy
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This dataset contains - for the first time in Italy - information on seniority. In...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Positive Expectations Feedback Experiments And Number Guessing Games As Models Of Financial Markets
August 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In repeated number guessing games choices typically converge quickly to the Nash equilibrium. In positive expectations feedback experiments, however, convergence to the equilibrium price tends to...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Health, Financial Incentives And Retirement In Spain
October 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Coordination Frictions And The Financial Crisis
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author argues that the desirability of fiscal policy in response to the current crisis depends on whether one views the current crisis as a temporary deviation from a unique...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Strategic Versus Financial Investors: The Role Of Strategic Objectives In Financial Contracting
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities....
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Bank Ownership And Financial Stability
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study how political choices on the allocation of bank control affect bank instability. The political trade o¤ between lobby contributions and social welfare is determined by political...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality In Health, Health Care And Health Financing By Means Of Rank- Dependent Indices: A Recipe For Good Practice
August 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Happiness And Financial Satisfaction In Israel: Effects Of Religiosity, Ethnicity, And War
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. The data set is the Israeli...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Measuring Financial Market Integration Over The Long Run: Is There A U-Shape?
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using long time series for sovereign bond markets of fifteen industrialized economies from 1875 to 2009, the author finds that financial market integration by the end of the 20th century was...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
The Financial Trilemma
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The financial trilemma states that financial stability, financial integration and national financial policies are incompatible. Any two of the three objectives can be combined but not all three;...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
CDOs And The Financial Crisis: Credit Ratings And Fair Premia
February 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper uses the market-standard Gaussian copula model to show that fair spreads on CDO tranches are much higher than fair spreads on similarly-rated corporate bonds. It implies that credit...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Cross-Border Banking On Financial Stability
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the stability aspects of cross-border banking. The authors first argue that cross-border banking brings about various benefits and costs for financial stability. Based on...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Monetary Policy On Economic Activity - Evidence From A Meta-analysis
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the findings a meta-analysis identifying the causes of variation in the impact of monetary policies on economic development. The sample of observations included in the authors'...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Economic Growth And The Volatility Of Foreign Aid
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Foreign aid's effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy. The authors examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid....
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Training And Hiring Strategies To Improve Firm Performance
October 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study how upgrading skills of personnel affects a firm's performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Segmentation, Advertising And Prices
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the implications of market segmentation on firm competitiveness. In contrast to earlier work, here market segmentation is minimal in the sense that it is based on consumer...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
-
White Papers
Is Transparency To No Avail? Committee Decision-Making, Pre-Meetings, And Credible Deals
July 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions,...
Provided by Tinbergen Institute
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