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Effects of Government Spending on Employment: Evidence from Winners and Runners-up in Procurement Auctions
(2018-05-01)
To estimate demand for labor, we use a combination of detailed employment data and the outcomes of procurement auctions, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm ...
Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review
(2018-04-20)
In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both ...
Pro-rich Inflation in Europe: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality
(2018-05-17)
This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct ...
Reviving the Shadow Banking Chain in Europe: Regulatory Agency, Technical Complexity and the Dynamics of Co-Habitation
(2018-06-01)
In recent years European financial regulation has experienced a tremendous reorientation with respect to the shadow banking system, which manifested first and foremost in its reframing as market-based finance. Initially ...
Local Peer Effects and Corporate Investment
(2018-07-07)
We examine how a firms' investment behavior affects the investment of a neighboring firm. Economic theory yields ambiguous predictions regarding the direction of firm peer effects and consistent with earlier work, we find ...
Much Ado About Nothing: A Study of Differential Pricing and Liquidity of Short and Long Term Bonds
(2018-11-01)
Are yields of long-maturity bonds distorted by demand pressure of clientele investors, regulatory effects, or default, flight-to-safety or liquidity premiums? Using data on German nominal bonds between 2005 and 2015, we ...
Debt Holder Monitoring and Implicit Guarantees: Did the BRRD Improve Market Discipline?
(2018-09-25)
This paper argues that the introduction of the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) improved market discipline in the European bank market for unsecured debt. The different impact of the BRRD on bank bonds ...
Can Households See into the Future? Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
(2018-07-14)
This paper presents new evidence on the expectation formation process from a Dutch household survey. Households become too optimistic about their future income after their income has improved, consistent with the ...
High-Dimensional Sparse Financial Networks through a Regularised Regression Model
(2019-02-12)
"We propose a shrinkage and selection methodology specifically designed for network inference using high dimensional data through a regularised linear regression model with Spike-and-Slab prior on the parameters. The ...
Financial Constraints and Corporate EnvironmentalResponsibility
(2018-09-13)
This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on firms' corporate social responsibility. Exploiting heterogeneity in firms' exposure to a monetary policy shock in the U.S., which reduced financial constraints for ...