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CEO Self‐Regulation and the Cost of Equity Capital
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore the association between CEO self‐regulation and the cost of equity capital by distinguishing between two dimensions of regulatory focus—promotion focus and prevention focus—based on Higgins' (1997) framework. A promotion focus prioritizes positive stimuli, accomplishment, and growth, while a prevention focus emphasizes negative ...
Ann Ling‐Ching Chan, Kyunghwa Yu
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Intertemporal Asset Pricing Without Consumption Data [PDF]
This paper proposes a new way to generalize the insights of static asset pricing theory to a multi-period setting. The paper uses a loglinear approximation to the budget constraint to substitute out consumption from a standard intertemporal asset pricing
John Y. Campbell
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Religiosity and Debt Maturity: International Evidence
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between country‐level religiosity and corporate debt maturity. We develop competing predictions reflecting creditor‐ and borrower‐side channels through which religiosity may favor either shorter or longer maturity. Using 407,399 firm‐year observations from 56 countries and territories over 1996–2021, we find
Xingyu Chen +4 more
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Risk and Growth: Theoretical Relationships and Preliminary Estimates for South Africa [PDF]
In the recent literature on economic growth there is disagreement over the relationship between growth and volatility and their relative benefits and costs in welfare terms.
Russel Cooper, Kieran P. Donaghy
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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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College Loans and Human Capital Investment
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT College loans facilitate access to education, but the repayment burden may distort posteducation human capital investment. We examine the role of college loans and loan repayment policies through a structural model of individuals' dynamic decisions on borrowing/saving, labor supply, and costly human capital investment. We estimate two versions
Chao Fu +2 more
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Social Status, Inequality, and Redistribution
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore implications of social status concerns for redistribution, income inequality, and growth in a political economy framework. Salience of such concerns leads to a propagation mechanism, whereby initial income inequality and reduced willingness to redistribute income reinforce each other, potentially giving rise to multiple steady ...
Mark Gradstein, Luigi Ventura
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Poverty traps and growth in a model of endogenous time preference [PDF]
We study the effect of endogenous time preference in a simple neo-classical model of growth. The variation of time preference causes the economy to have multiple steady states, some of which are similar to poverty traps. The stability properties of these
Chakrabarty, Debajyoti
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The Distributional Effects of Economic Uncertainty*
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the distributional implications of uncertainty shocks by developing a model that links macroeconomic aggregates to the US distribution of earnings and consumption. Our findings suggest that the fraction of low‐earning workers decreases initially, while the share of households reporting low consumption increases.
Florian Huber +2 more
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Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does infrastructure shape rural development? Using household panel data from a nationally representative sample of Chinese villages, matched to high‐resolution highway maps, we find that road expansion between 2000 and 2015 operates mainly through reallocation, with less productive farmers scaling down or exiting and more productive ...
Lin Ma +3 more
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