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Every year over 20 states offer sales tax holidays (STHs) on specific items like clothes, shoes and other items to encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the spending response to these holidays. Using a...
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Empirical studies on the impact of micro level intervention strategies on poverty among poor women in Botswana are lacking, yet women are a valuable asset for the economy of the country. Continued marginalization and disempowerment of women has become a serious problem which merit urgent...
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This article describes how numerous studies in Botswana have found high levels of poverty among women, in particular, those in female-headed households. Extreme poverty among women continues despite government programme interventions designed to end poverty. This article reports the findings of...
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We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U … lenders. The estimation results imply an increase of 3-4 jobs for each million dollars of loans, suggesting that credit …-county versus non-SBA county-industry control firms. Finally, for loans issued over the 1992-2007 period, we estimate total job …
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properly managed, perform better than either loans or grants taken in isolation. The core of the intuition, which we develop in …
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Banks provide risky loans to firms which have superior information regarding the quality of their projects. Due to … of low quality, i.e. high risk, loans and therefore reduces the risk of the bank loan portfolio. However, CVaR regulation …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...
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This paper provides new evidence on the behaviour of euro area aggregate loans to the private sector. Using a sample … covering the last twenty years, a cointegrating vector linking the real stock of loans to a small set of domestic macroeconomic … variables is found. Besides real GDP and prices, this set includes a new measure of the cost of loans obtained as a weighted …
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This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal...
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