Browsing LIF-SAFE Working Papers by Title
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Financial Bridges and Network Communities
(2018-09-29)We analyze the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis showing that the European network exhibits a strong community structure with two main blocks acting as shock spreader and receiver, respectively. ... -
Financial Constraints and Corporate EnvironmentalResponsibility
(2018-09-13)This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on firms' corporate social responsibility. Exploiting heterogeneity in firms' exposure to a monetary policy shock in the U.S., which reduced financial constraints for ... -
Financial Constraints, Newly Founded Firms and the Financial Crisis
(2017-12-14)This paper aims to analyze the effects of financial constraints and the financial crisis on the financing and investment policies of newly founded firms. Thereby, the analysis adds important new insights on a crucial segment ... -
Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review
(2018-04-20)In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both ... -
Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes
(2015-05-01)Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments ... -
Financial Incentives and Loan Officer Behavior: Multitasking and Allocation of Effort Under an Incomplete Contract
(2017-10-10)We investigate the implications of providing loan officers with a non-linear compensation structure that rewards loan volume and penalizes poor performance. Using a unique data set provided by a large international commercial ... -
Financial Literacy and Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing
(2019-10-14)We report the results of a longitudinal intervention with students across five universities in China designed to reduce online consumer debt. Our research design allocates individuals to either a financial literacy treatment, ... -
Financial Literacy and Socialist Education: Lessons from the German Reunification
(2018-07-01)A growing body of literature shows the importance of financial literacy in households' financial decisions. However, fewer studies focus on understanding the determinants of financial literacy. Our paper fills this gap by ... -
Financial Regulation in the EU – Cross-Border Capital Flows, Systemic Risk and the European Banking Union as Reference Points for EU Financial Market Integration
(2014-06-01)This is a chapter for a forthcoming volume Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2014) (eds. Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne). It provides an overview of EU financial regulation ... -
Financing Asset Growth
(2013-08-11)In this paper we provide new evidence that corporate financing decisions are associated with managerial incentives to report high equity earnings. Managers rely most heavily on debt to finance their asset growth when their ... -
Financing Conditions and Toxic Emissions
(2019-07-27)Exploiting heterogeneity in U.S. firms' exposure to an unconventional monetary policy shock that reduced debt financing costs, I identify the impact of financing conditions on firms' toxic emissions. I find robust evidence ... -
Financing Costs and the Efficiency of Public-Private Partnerships
(2020-11-18)The paper compares provision of public infrastructure via public-private partnerships (PPPs) with provision under government management. Due to soft budget constraints of government management, PPPs exert more effort and ... -
Fiscal Stimulus and Labor Market Flexibility
(2015-03-03)This paper investigates whether a fiscal stimulus implies a different impact for flexible and rigid labour markets. The analysis is done for 11 advanced OECD economies. Using quarterly data from 1999 to 2013, I estimate a ... -
Freedom of Contract and Financial Stability through the lens of the Legal Theory of Finance
(2016-08-28)This paper is the outcome of a related broader project, exploring the explanatory power of the Legal Theory of Finance, which proposes a new institution-based analytical framework for the analysis of phenomena of financial ... -
Game-Theoretic Foundations of Monetary Equilibrium
(2013-09-30)Monetary theorists have advanced an intriguing notion: we exchange money to make up for a lack of enforcement, when it is difficult to monitor and sanction opportunistic behaviors. We demonstrate that, in fact, monetary ... -
Gender Differences in Financial Advice
(2015-03-04)We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based onminutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ... -
Germany's Reluctance to Regulate Related Party Transactions
(2018-02-15)Germany Inc. was an idiosyncratic form of industrial organization that put financial institutions at the center. This paper argues that the consumption of private benefits in related party transactions by these key agents ... -
Global Realignment in Financial Market Dynamics: Evidence from ETF Networks
(2021-02-04)The centrality of the United States in the global financial system is taken for granted, but its response to recent political and epidemiological events has suggested that China now holds a comparable position. Using ... -
Global Temperature, R&D Expenditure, and Growth
(2017-11-15)We shed new light on the macroeconomic effects of rising temperatures. In the data, a shock to global temperature dampens expenditures in research and development (R&D). We rationalize this empirical evidence within a ... -
Globally Dangerous Diseases: Bad News for Main Street, Good News for Wall Street?
(2016-12-12)This paper examines whether investor mood, driven by World Health Organization (WHO) alerts and media news on globally dangerous diseases, is priced in pharmaceutical companies' stocks in the United States. We concentrate ...