Frontrunners or Copycats? -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction Frontrunners or Copycats? -- 1 Understanding and Theorizing Modern Childhood in Denmark: Tendencies and Challenges -- Children and the welfare state: From private to shared responsibility -- Children as political subjects...

Do labor regulations influence the reaction of stock markets and firm profitability to cross-border acquisitions? We discover that acquiring firms enjoy smaller abnormal stock returns and profits when targets are in countries with stronger labor protection regulations, i.e., in countries where...

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for identifying exogenous changes in the competitive...

Although liquidity creation is a key banking function, little is known about its determinants. We use a new identification strategy to assess whether an intensification of competition among banks increases or decreases liquidity creation. Consistent with the predictions of some theoretical...