We evaluate a government‐funded matching policy for retirement savings contributions targeted at low‐ and middle‐income individuals. Using a difference‐in‐difference approach, we exploit administrative changes to the Australian Government's retirement contribution matching (co‐contribution) policy to identify the impact of the programme on savings ...
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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Pension funds – main institutional investor on the Romanian capital market? [PDF]
In this article, the authors emphasize the very important role that institutional investors, under the form of pension funds, hold for the development of capital markets existing in the economy and for supporting the financing process of institutional ...
Carmen CORDUNEANU, Laura Raisa MILOS
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COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Sainsbury T, Breunig RV, Watson T.
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
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THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATELY ADMINISTERED PENSION SYSTEM IN ROMANIA IN FINANCING AND SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRIPHOTOVOLTAICS [PDF]
In this article, the authors analyzed the strategic connection between the private pension system in Romania and the agriphotovoltaic potential, emphasizing the importance of these funds as a source of institutional capital for the energy transition ...
ANGHEL MĂDĂLINA-GABRIELA +1 more
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Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings
ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS +3 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security Privatization in a Small Unionized Economy [PDF]
This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady ...
Antonis Adam
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The Weaponization of ESG Infrastructures and the Future of Green Finance
ABSTRACT The trillion‐dollar green finance industry faces growing pushbacks from a range of actors. While criticisms vary—from portraying ESG as part of a “woke” agenda to highlighting risks of greenwashing—we now see mass departures from climate–finance initiatives, with asset managers coming under fire from regulators over ESG policies and activist ...
Annika Stenström
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The value of teachers' pensions [PDF]
As private sector employers have moved away from providing final salary defined benefit (DB) pensions to their employees, attention has increasingly focused on the public sector's continued provision of such pensions and the value of these pension ...
Carl Emmerson +2 more
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