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Moral Suasion in Regional Government Bond Markets [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
In the context of the German regional government bond market, this paper studies the hypothesis that governments use moral suasion to persuade home government-owned banks to hold more home government debt. The empirical approach makes use of German banks' ownership structure, heterogeneity in the states' fiscal strength and detailed bank-level panel ...
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Water Conservation and Residential Landscapes: Household Preferences, Household Choices

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006
Communities throughout the Western United States are challenged by tight water supplies and swelling populations. Information is needed to better develop and target municipal water conservation programs.
Brian H. Hurd
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“Do the right thing:” The effects of moral suasion on cooperation [PDF]

Journal of Public Economics, 2014
Abstract The use of moral appeals to affect the behavior of others is pervasive (from the pulpit to ethics classes) but little is known about the effects of moral suasion on behavior. In a series of experiments we study whether moral suasion affects behavior in voluntary contribution games and the mechanisms by which behavior is altered. We find that
Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bó
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POSITIVE CHECK: THE MALTHUSIAN THEOREM AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Journal of Smart Economic Growth, 2021
Thomas Malthus (1798) had argued that human ingenuity and skill were incapable of controlling population growth. With less efficacious positive controls (moral suasion), he controversially relied on wars, diseases, famine, and deaths—probable ...
Christopher Warburton
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The price level and monetary policy

PSL Quarterly Review, 2012
Most central banks are required to or choose to stabilize a price index, largely by manipulating short term interest rates. A serious problem is which index to choose among the national income deflator, wholesale prices, the cost of living, with or ...
Charles P. Kindleberger
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Il livello dei prezzi e la politica monetaria (The Price Level and Monetary Policy)

Moneta e Credito, 2012
Most central banks are required or choose to stabilize a price index, largely by manipulating short term interest rates. A serious problem is what index to choose among the national income deflator, wholesale prices, the cost of living, with or ...
Charles P. Kindleberger
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The Operational Activities of EU Banking Groups and the Portfolio of Government Bonds during the COVID-19 Pandemic – the Case of Non-euro Area EU Countries

Comparative Economic Research
The objective of this article is to present the results of an analysis of how the form of activities of EU banking groups affected their decisions to purchase non-euro area EU government bonds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan Koleśnik
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Nudging ESG Investments via Digital Financial Advising: Evidence From an Investment Game Experiment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The influence of financial advisors on retail investors' sustainable investment choices remains surprisingly underexplored, despite their potential to shape investment behavior. This study uses an experimental design to examine how sustainability‐related information provided by a digital (simulated) financial advisor affects individual demand ...
Caterina Lucarelli, Manuele Citi, Matteo Pasquino   +2 more
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A Universal and Actionable Measure of Corporate Sustainability for Strategic Decision Making

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managers require a universal, comparable, and decision‐useful measure of corporate sustainability that can reliably inform business strategy, yet such a tool remains absent in the literature and current practice. This paper introduces a comprehensive and operational metric—grounded in Goertz's Basic Framework for developing social science ...
Mariapia Pazienza, Martin de Jong, Dirk Schoenmaker   +2 more
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Politica bancaria e sviluppo economico: rileggendo l'era menichelliana e quella attuale (Banking policy and economic development: re-reading the menichellian era and the present)

Moneta e Credito, 2012
Il basso tasso di crescita dell’Italia, anche nel contesto internazionale ed europeo, ha spinto a confrontare gli anni ’50 con gli ultimi dieci o quindici.
Mario Sarcinelli
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