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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "E44"
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Title:Family Firms and the Agency Cost of Debt: The role of soft information during a crisis
Author(s):D’AURIZIO, Leandro; OLIVIERO, Tommaso; ROMANO, LivioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In this paper we study how access to bank lending during the recent financial crisis differed between family and non-family firms. Our theoretical prediction is that the presence of a family block-holder in the company ...
Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy
Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
Title:Stationary Equilibrium Distributions in Economies with Limited Commitment
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Limited commitment to contracts can explain imperfect risk sharing even when individuals have access to complete insurance markets. Past contributions have focused on the resulting cross-sectional distribution of consumption ...
Title:The Saving Glut Explanation of Global Imbalances. The Role of Underinvestment
Author(s):CORNELI, FlaviaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:According to the “Saving Glut hypothesis”, global imbalances are caused by inefficiently high level of precautionary savings in .nancially underdeveloped regions, where agents have limited opportunity to diversify idiosyncratic ...