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Are Tax Havens Good? Implications of the Crackdown on Secrecy
(2015-07-01)
The pressure on tax haven countries to engage in tax information exchange shows first effects on capital markets. Empirical research suggests that investors do react to information exchange and partially withdraw from ...
Putting the Pension Back in 401(k) Plans: Optimal versus Default Longevity Income Annuities
(2016-09-29)
Most defined contribution pension plans pay benefits as lump sums, yet the US Treasury has recently encouraged firms to protect retirees from outliving their assets by converting a portion of their plan balances into ...
Asymmetric Social Norms
(2017-01-10)
Studies of cooperation in infinitely repeated matching games focus on homogeneous economies, where full cooperation is efficient and any defection is collectively sanctioned. Here we study heterogeneous economies where ...
Remarks on the German Regulation of Crowdfunding
(2017-12-05)
Crowdfunding is a buzzword that signifies a sub-set in the new forms of finance facilitated by advances in information technology usually categorized as fintech. Concerns for financial stability, investor and consumer ...
How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior
(2017-06-23)
This Chapter explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, as compared to what in the past had been thought of as more “normal” financial conditions. Our ...
Only Time will Tell: A Theory of Deferred Compensation
(2018-08-09)
This paper provides a complete characterization of optimal contracts in principal-agent settings where the agent's action has persistent effects. We model general information environments via the stochastic process of the ...
Implications of Money-Back Guarantees for Individual Retirement Accounts: Protection Then and Now
(2019-10-21)
In the wake of the financial crisis and continued volatility in international capital markets, there is growing interest in mechanisms that can protect people against retirement account volatility. This paper explores the ...
The Impact of Job Referrals on Employment Outcomes in Top Corporate Positions
(2020-03-01)
Using an original dataset on professional networks of directors sitting on the boards of large US corporations, we examine how personal relationships are used by firms to improve job match quality in the high-skill segment ...
Back to the Future: A Sovereign Debt Standstill Mechanism IMF Article VIII, Section 2 (b)
(2020-06-22)
This article provides a proposal to use IMF Article VIII, Section 2 (b) to establish a binding mechanism on private creditors for a sovereign debt standstill. The proposal builds on the original idea by Whitney Deveboise ...
Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
(2021-01-26)
Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals ...