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Incentive-Based Capital Requirements
(2018-05-02)This paper proposes a new regulatory approach that implements capital requirements contingent on executive incentive schemes. We argue that excessive risk-taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral ... -
Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
(2021-07-24)We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate ... -
Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior
(2015-01-27)The Eurozone fiscal crisis has created pressure for institutional harmonization, but skeptics argue that cultural predispositions can prevent convergence in behavior. Our paper derives a robust cultural classification of ... -
Inflation Expectations and Choices of Households
(2019-04-01)Do household inflation expectations affect consumption-savings decisions? We link survey data on quantitative inflation expectations to administrative data on income and wealth. We document that households with higher ... -
Informal Sector and Economic Development: The Credit Supply Channel
(2015-05-01)The standard view suggests that removing barriers to entry and improving judicial enforcement reduces informality and boosts investment and growth. However, a general equilibrium approach shows that this conclusion may ... -
Innovation Dynamics and Fiscal Policy: Implications for Growth, Asset Prices, and Welfare
(2017-04-13)"We study the general equilibrium implications of different fiscal policies on macroeconomic quantities, asset prices, and welfare by utilizing two endogenous growth models. The expanding variety model features only ... -
Input-Output-Based Measures of Systemic Importance
(2013-08-01)The analyses of intersectoral linkages of Leontief (1941) and Hirschman (1958) provide a natural way to study the transmission of risk among interconnected banks and to measure their systemic importance. In this paper we ... -
Inside the ESG Ratings: (Dis)agreement and Performance
(2020-07-31)We analyze the ESG rating criteria used by prominent agencies and show that there is a lack of a commonality in the definition of ESG (i) characteristics, (ii) attributes and (iii) standards in defining E, S and G components. ... -
Insight Private Equity
(2013-06-18)We are able to shed light on the black box of restructuring tools private equity investors use to improve the operational performance of their portfolio companies. By building on previous work considering performance ... -
Insurance Activities and Systemic Risk
(2015-12-01)This paper investigates systemic risk in the insurance industry. We first analyze the systemic contribution of the insurance industry vis-à-vis other industries by applying 3 measures, namely the linear Granger causality ... -
Interbank Funding as Insurance Mechanism for (Persistent) Liquidity Shocks
(2015-11-01)The interbank market is important for the efficient functioning of the financial system, transmission of monetary policy and therefore ultimately the real economy. In particular, it facilitates banks' liquidity management. ... -
Interbank Networks and Backdoor Bailouts: Benefiting from other Banks' Government Guarantees
(2018-05-02)This paper explains why banks derive a benefit from being highly interconnected. We show that when banks are protected by government guarantees they can significantly increase their expected returns by channeling funds ... -
International Banking Conglomerates and the Transmission of Lending Shocks Across Borders
(2017-08-01)We investigate how solvency and wholesale funding shocks to 84 OECD parent banks affect the lending of 375 foreign subsidiaries. We find that parent solvency shocks are more important than wholesale funding shocks for ... -
International Capital Markets with Time-Varying Preferences
(2017-08-02)We propose a 2-country asset-pricing model where agents' preferences change endogenously as a function of the popularity of internationally traded goods. We determine the effect of the time-variation of preferences on ... -
International Endogenous Growth, Macro Anomalies, and Asset Prices
(2016-07-20)"This paper studies a two-country production economy with complete and frictionless financial markets and international trade in which competition in R&D leads to endogenous new firm creation and economic growth. Current ... -
Investment-Specific Shocks, Business Cycles, and Asset Prices
(2016-03-14)We introduce long-run investment productivity risk in a two-sector production economy to explain the joint behavior of macroeconomic quantities and asset prices. Long-run productivity risk in both sectors, for which we ... -
Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data
(2019-03-01)Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ... -
Leaning Against the Wind: Debt Financing in the Face of Adversity
(2016-12-29)We offer evidence of a new stylized feature of corporate financing decisions: the tendency of managers to rely more on debt financing when earnings prospects are poor. We term this 'leaning against the wind' and consider ... -
Level and Slope of Volatility Smiles in Long-Run Risk Models
(2017-10-16)We propose a long-run risk model with stochastic volatility, a time-varying mean reversion level of volatility, and jumps in the state variables. The special feature of our model is that the jump intensity is not affine ... -
Life Insurance and Demographic Change: An Empirical Analysis of Surrender Decisions Based on Panel Data
(2016-12-01)Households buy life insurance as part of their liquidity management. The option to surrender such a policy can serve as a buffer when a household faces a liquidity need. In this study, we investigate empirically which ...