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Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, ...
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Frontiers in Psychology
9 (2018), Art. 739, 12 S.
| Nina Richter, Rebecca Bondü, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner, Gisela Trommsdorff
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The paper estimates the dynamic impact of structural oil market shocks on the balance sheet of US firms, using industry level data covering manufacturing, trade and mining sectors. For manufacturing firms, findings indicate that an unexpected disruption in oil supply that raises oil prices by 1% lowers firm profits by 1.3% on impact. On the other hand, profits rise by 0.39% in response to the same ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
95 (2018), S. 112-127
| Khalid ElFayoumi
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The theoretical literature remains inconclusive on whether changes in bank exposure to the domestic sovereign have an adverse effect on the sovereign risk position through a diabolic loop in the sovereign-bank nexus, or reduce perceived default risk by acting as a disciplinary device for the sovereign. In this paper we empirically analyze the impact of exogenous changes in bank exposure on the risk ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
88 (2018) S. 63-75
| Maximilian Podstawski, Anton Velinov
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Background: It has become increasingly common in multiple purpose general population surveys to integrate different kinds of biomarker in the data collection process.Objective: In this article we test the predictive power of five different functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We use five different functional forms ...
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Demographic Research
38 (2018), Art. 62, S. 1933-2002
| Hannes Kröger, Rasmus Hoffmann
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This study evaluates the impact of fuel taxes on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly new car registrations in France. We use information on the car holder to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers, and we identify demand parameters through the large oil price fluctuations of this period. We find that the short-term sensitivity of demand with respect ...
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Energy Economics
74 (2018), S. 76-96
| Pauline Givord, Céline Grislain-Letrémy, Helene Naegele
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While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding “access to finance”, financial infrastructure and financial literacy are mainly substitutes. However, regarding ...
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World Development
111 (2018), S. 84-96
| Antonia Grohmann, Theres Klühs, Lukas Menkhoff
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The use of renewable energy sources is a major strategy to mitigate climate change. Yet Sinn (2017) argues that excessive electrical storage requirements limit the further expansion of variable wind and solar energy. We question, and alter, strong implicit assumptions of Sinn’s approach and find that storage needs are considerably lower, up to two orders of magnitude. First, we move away from corner ...
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European Economic Review
108 (2018), S. 259-279
| Alexander Zerrahn, Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
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This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area countries. Using firm-level data from 2005 to 2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derivethresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt increased after 2008 when financial distress ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
80 (2018), S. 112-130
| Stefan Gebauer, Ralph Setzer, Andreas Westphal
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This paper investigates how the withdrawal of banks from their cross-border business impacted the borrowing costs of European firms since the crisis. We combine aggregate information on total and cross-border credit with firm-level survey data for the period 2010 - 2014. We find that the decline in cross-border lending led to a deterioration in the borrowingconditions of small firms. In countries with ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
80 (2018), S. 35-58
| Franziska Bremus, Katja Neugebauer
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This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that all participants increase their fair trade premium when facing an audience. We find that the premium is ...
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European Economic Review
110 (2018), S. 61-77
| Jana Friedrichsen, Dirk Engelmann