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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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How Does Progressivity Affect the Tax Cut Multiplier?

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the targeting of personal income tax cuts affect the output multiplier? This paper provides quantitative evidence using a heterogeneous‐agent New‐Keynesian model calibrated to match US distributions of income, wealth, marginal tax rates, and marginal propensities to consume.
Christian Gillitzer
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Behavioral Biases in Annuity Choice: An Experiment [PDF]

We conduct a neutral-context laboratory experiment to systematically investigate the role of the hit-by-bus concern in explaining the annuitization puzzle: the low rate of retirement-asset annuitization relative to the predictions of standard models.
Lina Walker, Robert S. Gazzale
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Evolution of Contributions Paid by Pension Participants [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020
The current value of the pension is a measure of the value of future pension benefit flows, being defined as the amount needed at the time of retirement to purchase an annuity that generates the same payment flows as those promised by pension schemes ...
Tudor Colomeischi
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Mutual fund director compensation

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams, Sattar Mansi, Takeshi Nishikawa   +2 more
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Annuity Prices, Money's Worth and Replacement Ratios: UK experience 1972 - 2002 [PDF]

In this paper we construct a time series of annuity prices from 1972-2002, and examine whether annuity rates are unfairly priced, and assess the extent to which annuitisation risks are hedged by stock market returns.
Ian Tonks, Edmund Cannon
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Gray Divorce After 50: A Scoping Review of Antecedents, Consequences, and Family‐Theoretical Gaps

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gray divorce, marital dissolution at Age 50 and older, has become an increasingly important family transition with implications for later‐life kinship, economic security, intergenerational ties, and postmarital adjustment. This scoping review maps antecedents, outcomes, moderators, and family‐theory gaps across 25 empirical studies published ...
Lawrence E. Ugwu, Uzoamaka F. Ugwoke, Janine Anthea White   +2 more
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Learning in the Limit: Income Inference from Credit Extensions

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining a randomized controlled trial with administrative and survey data, this paper shows that credit limit extensions significantly increase total spending and income expectations. By controlling for changes in personal income expectations, the spending response to credit limit extensions weakens by approximately 30%.
XIAO YIN
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