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Impact of ethical behavior on syndicated loan rates
(2016-06-27)This paper shows that borrowers’ ethical behavior leads lending banks to loosen financing conditions when setting loan rates. We advance the banking literature by stressing that the previous financing loosening is enhanced ... -
Implementation via vote delegation
(2019-03-20)For some years now, the number of political parties asking for the direct participation of citizens in the decision making process is increasing. These parties defend that citizens should be able to decide on each and every ... -
Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation
(2017-07-07)We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior ... -
Public procurement for the formation of markets for innovation: Coordination failures and instruments
(2016-03-08)Public procurement essentially consists in the purchase of goods and/or services helping public administrations performing (better) their public services missions. Its role has evolved and it is increasingly used as an ... -
Scale Effects, Innovations and Spillovers: New Insights from Emerging Countries
(2016-03-30)There has been a concomitant rise in R&D and the rate of economic growth in emerging countries. Analyzing a panel of 31 emerging countries, we find convincing evidence of scale effects which make government policies potent ... -
Selection in Unsolicited Ratings: the Case of the Sovereign Debt Market
(2017-07-07)This paper aims at contributing to the debate on whether unsolicited ratings are strategically motivated. I present evidence from the sovereign debt market that strategic motivation is not necessarily behind the patterns ... -
Teaching styles and achievement: student and teacher perspectives
(2017-04-05)We analyze the relationship of the teaching style with student achievement. As a novelty, we explore whether the e˙ect of the teaching style di˙ers when class work is reported by teachers or students. We find that who ... -
The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization
(2016-03-30)This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day. An indicator measuring the ...