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Luc Laeven
Researcher at European Central Bank
Publications - 360
Citations - 40776
Luc Laeven is an academic researcher from European Central Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial crisis & Deposit insurance. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 355 publications receiving 36916 citations. Previous affiliations of Luc Laeven include World Bank & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Nonconsolidated Affiliates, Bank Capitalization, and Risk Taking
TL;DR: The authors showed that the effective capitalization ratios of small US bank holding companies (BHCs) are substantially lower than the reported ratios and that the effectively lower capitalization ratio is associated with higher riskiness at the BHC level.
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Does Campaign Finance imply Political Favors
TL;DR: This article found that firms providing contributions in the 1998 campaign to (elected) federal deputies experienced higher stock returns following the election, even after controlling for industry-specific effects and firm-specific controls.
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Waking Up from the American Dream: On the Experience of Young Americans during the Housing Boom of the 2000s
Luc Laeven,Alexander Popov +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit regional variations in house price fluctuations in the United States during the early to mid 2000s to study the impact of the housing boom on young Americans' choices related to home ownership, household formation, and fertility.
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International profit shifting within multinationals: a multi-country perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the opportunities and incentives generated by international tax differences for international profit shifting by multinationals and find that a multinational's profit shifting in a country depends on a weighted average of international tax rate differences between all countries where the multinational is active.
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Does Judicial Efficiency Lower the Cost of Credit
TL;DR: Laeven and Majnoni as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of judicial efficiency on banks' lending spreads for a large cross section of countries and found that judicial efficiency is the main driver of interest rate spreads across countries.