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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: the effect of external examiners in Italian schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...

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Do financial crises erode potential output? evidence from OECD inflation responses

Bijapur, Mohan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper presents evidence from a panel investigation of OECD countries that inflationary pressures tend to be stronger during recovery from financial crises compared to recovery from non-crisis economic downturns, indicating impairment in productive potential.

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Are credit crunches supply or demand shocks?

Bijapur, Mohan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper provides new insights into the relationship between the supply of credit and the macroeconomy. We present evidence that credit shocks constitute shocks to aggregate supply in that they have a permanent effect on output and cause inflation to rise in the short term. Our results also...

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Political credit cycles: the case of the Euro zone

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Garicano, Luis; Santos, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the mechanisms through which the adoption of the Euro delayed, rather than advanced, economic reforms in the Euro zone periphery and led to the deterioration of important institutions in these countries. We show that the abandonment of the reform process and the institutional...

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Can firms grow without credit?: evidence from the Euro Area, 2005-2011: a quantile panel analysis

Dimelis, Sophia; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Louri, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper explores the effects of bank credit on firm growth before and after the recent financial crisis, taking into account different structural characteristics of banking sectors and domestic economies. Panel quantile analysis is used on a sample of 2075 euro area firms in 2005-2011. The...

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Fiscal consolidation during a depression

Bagaria, Nitika; Holland, Dawn; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

In 2009-10, the UK's budget deficit was about 11 per cent of GDP. A credible plan for fiscal consolidation was introduced in the UK over the fiscal years 2011-12 to 2016-17. In this paper, we assess the impact of the scale and timing of this fiscal consolidation programme on output and...

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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action

Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...

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Survive another day: does uncertain financing affect the composition of investment?

Garicano, Luis; Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We expect firms that face uncertainty about their access to the financial markets to prioritize shorter term investments over longer term ones. Using a high quality panel data set, and a difference-in-differences approach to control for demand effects, we study whether this has been indeed the...

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Anatomy of a market crash: a market microstructure analysis of the Turkish overnight liquidity crisis

Danielsson, Jon; Saltoglu, Burak - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

An order flow model, where the coded identity of the counterparties of every trade is known, hence providing institution level order flow, is applied to both stable and crisis periods in a large and liquid overnight repo market in an emerging market economy. Institution level order flow is much...

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Risk Sharing of Disaggregate Macroeconomic and Idiosyncratic Shocks.

Hess, G.D.; Shin, K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

a deeper understanding as to why the economy lacks in specific areas of risk sharing arrangements. As well, it can point … to areas where the economy's risk sharing capability can be enhanced. Using household data from the Panel Study of Income … Dynamics, we find that a negligible amount of risk (around 10%) is shared in the aggregate, about 50% is shared within regions …

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