Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2021

We study non-performing loan (NPL) resolution using proprietary data on NPL transactions in China. Rather than representing orderly NPL resolution, the transactions appear to reflect banks concealing non-performing assets from regulators as (i) transaction prices do not reflect underlying credit ris...
Keywords: Financial regulation, regulatory arbitrage, systemic risk, Financial Distress
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Policymaking under the pandemic pressure could be subject to cognitive heuristics, allowing the resulting policy uncertainty to influence the market negatively.Researches in economics and finance have long recognized the importance of policy uncertainty. However, most studies take policy uncertainty...
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Policymaking
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Commentaries

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

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Annual Conference

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Household Finance

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May 2024

We examine donation behaviors from the perspective of religious beliefs. Using a transaction-level dataset from an Asian economy, we find that individuals with higher income uncertainty are more likely to donate, especially for religious donations, and after negative income uncertainty and health sh...
Keywords: donation, income uncertainty, spiritual insurance, wishful thinking, religion
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Annual Conference

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Trade, Growth and Development

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May 2023

With quantity-based innovation targets and subsidy programs launched since the mid-2000s, China has seen a patent surge, accounting for 46% of the world’s total patent applications in 2020; however, the overall patent quality has been steadily declining over time. This paper develops a Schumpeteri...
Keywords: Heterogeneous Innovations, Quantity-Based Subsidies, Human Capital
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