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We develop a theory of intergenerational transmission of preferences that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their...
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This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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We present a model in which issuers of asset backed securities choose to release coarse information to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social...
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Systemic risk is modeled as the endogenously chosen correlation of returns on assets held by banks. The limited liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank’s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a systemic risk-shifting incentive where all banks...
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respective major crisis triggers (Lehman’s collapse in the US and the 2009 admission by Papandreou, that Greece’s deficit was … those widely observed crisis triggers is similar in the EA and in the US, the behavior of their reserves is quite different …
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financial crisis of 2007-09, they raised substantial amounts of new capital, both from private investors and through government …
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crisis since mid-2007. We also find that there is some tendency of the yield movements to be larger when the demand for the …
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relationship banks gather information on their borrowers, which allows them to provide loans for profitable firms during a crisis … firms in a crisis. Using detailed credit register information for Italian banks before and after the Lehman Brothers …' default, we are able to study how relationship and transaction-banks responded to the crisis and we test existing theories of …
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the global financial crisis. This is due in part to the fact that many small economies continue to use hard exchange rate … hard fixers have been similar to those for inflation targeters during the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. …
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are not stronger during the 2008-2009 crisis; if anything, the opposite is true. We then show that this weaker resilience …
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