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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for … government investment funds, we investigate the effect of both application approvals and denials. To distinguish banks? risk … banks approve riskier loans and shift investment portfolios toward riskier securities. However, this shift in risk occurs …
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Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has mainly focused on estimating the cost of implementing the...
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% per year on a risk-adjusted basis over the three-year period following the sale of their loan. Furthermore, they suffer a …
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Two complementary sources of information are studied in a multiperiod agency model. One is an accounting source which partially but credibly conveys the agent’s private information through accounting recognition. The other is an unverified communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a...
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discuss the advantagesand disadvantages of each source of funding and analyze them numerically for bothrisk-neutral and risk … increasingprogramme costs. For risk-averse farmers, however, conditions that ensure a positiveoutcome from compliance rewards become more …
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Theoretical research argues that convertible bonds mitigate the contracting costs of moral hazard, adverseselection, and financial distress. Using firm-specific and macroeconomic factors of the contracting costs,we examine the extent to which they impact the likelihood of issuance and the...
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We analyze whether fluctuation in economy-wide factors cause time-series variation in thecontracting costs of moral hazard, adverse selection, and financial distress, and so create windows ofopportunity for firms to issue debt. Using the announcement period abnormal returns as one measure of...
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monitoring and restraining managers' earnings management behavior. The VC moral hazard hypothesis argues that VCs aggravate the … management. Using a sample of IPO firms between 1987 and 2002, after controlling for the magnitude of accruals manipulation (AM …
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Obtaining health insurance through an employer pools risk, but may lead to moral hazard, where employees with more …
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