Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2015

We show that a model of an advanced small open economy with exports in commodities and search and matching frictions in the labour market can match the impulse responses from a panel vector autoregression to an identified commodity price shock. Using a minimum distance strategy, we find that interna...
Keywords: Commodity prices, Search and matching unemployment
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2015

In recent years, the phenomenon of housing vacancy rate (HVR) has attracted considerable attention, especially concerning unjustified expansions of Chinese cities. /e aforementioned trend is disadvantageous in that it will ultimately lead to tremendous wastage of valuable land that could otherwise b...
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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

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May 2021

Suppose that n players want to elect a random leader and they communicate by posting messages to a common broadcast channel. This problem is called leader election, and it is fundamental to the distributed systems and cryptography literature. Recently, it has attracted renewed interests due to its p...
Keywords: cryptographic protocols / game theory, leader election, multi-party computation, extractor, round complexity
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Specialty Conference, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

Using a unique and proprietary loan-level data from a large Fintech firm in India, we analyze whether unstructured data regarding a consumer’s digital mobile footprint such as the type of mobile phone applications, number of applications on the phone, type of operating software used by a loan appl...
Keywords: FinTech, Loans, Digital Footprint, Credit
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Annual Conference

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Specialty Conference

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May 2019

Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? Exploiting the Mexican government’s rollout of one million debit cards to poor households from 2009–2012, I examine responses on both sides of the market, and find important spillovers and distributional impacts. On the supply sid...
Keywords: Coordination failiures, financial technology, spillovers, Mexico
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