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This paper presents evidence of banks using accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. In particular, we show that the stock market applies far greater discounts to a bank’s real estate loans and mortgage-backed securities than are implicit in the book values of these...
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The creation of Europe’s ‘new’ stock markets represents a major experiment in market design with important implications for the ability to support innovative, fast-growing companies. We evaluate the success of these markets based on a large number of measures of firm performance and...
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do not, in the case of indirect network effects, make standardization more likely, but (ii) indirect network effects are … associated with excessive standardization. We show in Clements’ framework that neither of these results are correct …: standardization is more likely as the number of software firms increases and when the type of market equilibrium is unique— there are …
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law matures. Contract standardization avoids this cost, statically improving enforcement; but it crowds out innovative …
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standardization, that is, left alone the market may fail to achieve standardization when it is socially desirable and (2) even if the …
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This paper empirically explores standard-setting organizations’ policy choices. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2006), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive...
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Using taxation and household survey data, this paper estimates top income shares for Indonesia during 1920-2004. Our … evidence that top income shares fell in the early-2000s. For pre-war Indonesia, we decompose top income shares by income source … century, top income shares in Indonesia have been higher than in India, broadly comparable to Japan, and somewhat lower than …
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The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
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This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990-2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based...
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. This paper provides a methodology for doing that. It is illustrated with a case study of Indonesia, a large newly …
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