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    • Endogenous Grids in Higher Dimensions: Delaunay Interpolation and Hybrid Methods 

      Ludwig, Alexander; Schön, Matthias (2016-04-18)
      This paper investigates extensions of the method of endogenous gridpoints (ENDGM) introduced by Carroll (2006) to higher dimensions with more than one continuous endogenous state variable. We compare three different ...
    • Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms 

      Börsch-Supan, Axel; Härtl, Klaus; Leite, Duarte; Ludwig, Alexander (2018-04-25)
      We propose a unified framework to measure the effects of different reforms of the pension system on retirement ages and macroeconomic indicators in the face of demographic change. A rich overlapping generations (OLG) model ...
    • Entrepreneurial Spawning: Experience, Education, and Exit 

      Cumming, Douglas; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen Christian (2016-02-29)
      We investigate the career dynamics of high-tech entrepreneurs by analyzing the exit choice of entrepreneurs: to act as a business angel, to found another firm, or to become dependently employed. Our detailed data from ...
    • Equilibrium Asset Pricing in Directed Networks 

      Branger, Nicole; Konermann, Patrick; Meinerding, Christoph; Schlag, Christian (2018-10-16)
      Directed links in cash flow networks affect the cross-section of price exposures and market prices of risk in equilibrium. In an asset pricing model featuring mutually exciting jumps, we measure directedness through an ...
    • Estimation and Model-Based Combination of Causality Networks 

      Bonaccolto, Giovanni; Caporin, Massimiliano; Panzica, Roberto Calogero (2017-01-31)
      Causality is a widely-used concept in theoretical and empirical economics. The recent financial economics literature has used Granger causality to detect the presence of contemporaneous links between financial institutions ...
    • EU Agencies in Banking and Energy Between Institutional and Policy Centralisation 

      Eckert, Sandra (2020-05-28)
      This working paper suggests to analyse agencification as a double process of institutional and policy centralisation. To that end, it develops a categorisation of agencies that incorporates these two dimensions. More ...
    • Euro Membership and Fiscal Reaction Functions 

      Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zimmer, Jochen (2013-05-10)
      The paper uses fiscal reaction functions for a panel of euro-area countries to investigate whether euro membership has reduced the responsiveness of countries to shocks in the level of inherited debt compared to the period ...
    • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic 

      Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül (2020-11-12)
      We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We ...
    • Exit Strategies 

      Angeloni, Ignazio; Faia, Ester; Winkler, Roland (2014-04-01)
      We study alternative scenarios for exiting the post-crisis fiscal and monetary accommodation using a macromodel where banks choose their capital structure and are subject to runs. Under a Taylor rule, the post-crisis ...
    • Expl(AI)ned: The impact of explainable artificial intelligence on cognitive processes 

      Bauer, Kevin; Zahn, Moritzvon; Hinz, Oliver (2021-06-25)
      This paper explores the interplay of feature-based explainable AI (XAI) techniques, information processing, and human beliefs. Using a novel experimental protocol, we study the impact of providing users with explanations ...
    • Explaining Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns: The Timing of Income or the Timing of Consumption Commitments? 

      Vellekoop, Nathanael (2018-11-01)
      A number of recent studies have concluded that consumer spending patterns over the month are closely linked to the timing of income receipt. This correlation is interpreted as evidence of hyperbolic discounting. I re-examine ...
    • Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations 

      Hanspal, Tobin; Weber, Annika; Wohlfart, Johannes (2020-05-21)
      We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations ...
    • Financial Bridges and Network Communities 

      Casarin, Roberto; Costola, Michele; Yenerdag, Erdem (2018-09-29)
      We analyze the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis showing that the European network exhibits a strong community structure with two main blocks acting as shock spreader and receiver, respectively. ...
    • Financial Constraints and Corporate EnvironmentalResponsibility 

      Götz, Martin (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 ...
    • Financial Constraints, Newly Founded Firms and the Financial Crisis 

      Hirsch, Julia; Walz, Uwe (2017-12-14)
      This paper aims to analyze the effects of financial constraints and the financial crisis on the financing and investment policies of newly founded firms. Thereby, the analysis adds important new insights on a crucial segment ...
    • Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review 

      Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia (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 ...
    • Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes 

      Brugiavini, Agar; Cavapozzi, Danilo; Padula, Mario; Pettinicchi, Yuri (2015-05-01)
      Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments ...
    • Financial Incentives and Loan Officer Behavior: Multitasking and Allocation of Effort Under an Incomplete Contract 

      Behr, Patrick; Drexler, Alejandro; Gropp, Reint E.; Guettler, Andre (2017-10-10)
      We investigate the implications of providing loan officers with a non-linear compensation structure that rewards loan volume and penalizes poor performance. Using a unique data set provided by a large international commercial ...
    • Financial Literacy and Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing 

      Bu, Di; Hanspal, Tobin; Liao, Yin; Liu, Yong (2019-10-14)
      We report the results of a longitudinal intervention with students across five universities in China designed to reduce online consumer debt. Our research design allocates individuals to either a financial literacy treatment, ...
    • Financial Literacy and Socialist Education: Lessons from the German Reunification 

      Davoli, Maddalena; Hou, Jia (2018-07-01)
      A growing body of literature shows the importance of financial literacy in households' financial decisions. However, fewer studies focus on understanding the determinants of financial literacy. Our paper fills this gap by ...