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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108544" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108544</id>
  <updated>2026-04-23T06:16:30Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-23T06:16:30Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Lending in the dark: Local newspaper closures and discrimination in mortgage lending</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324206" />
    <author>
      <name>Tran, Huynh</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324206</id>
    <updated>2025-08-23T01:45:16Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Lending in the dark: Local newspaper closures and discrimination in mortgage lending
Authors: Tran, Huynh
Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which local newspaper closures affect discrimination against minority borrowers in mortgage lending. I ñAnd that following a newspaper closure, interest rate differentials between minority (black or Hispanic) and comparable non-minority borrowers increase by 5.5 basis points, widening the existing gap in mortgage outcomes between the two groups. This effect cannot be explained by differences in credit risk or underlying economic conditions. My ñAndings suggest that the local press plays an important role in monitoring lending practices and reducing information asymmetries in the mortgage market.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Branding Vietnam: A Product Space analysis of how export diversification can shape up the country's sustainable and innovative growth</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324217" />
    <author>
      <name>Tran, Luong Thanh</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Freytag, Andreas</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324217</id>
    <updated>2025-08-23T01:45:19Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Branding Vietnam: A Product Space analysis of how export diversification can shape up the country's sustainable and innovative growth
Authors: Tran, Luong Thanh; Freytag, Andreas
Abstract: Vietnam's path to sustainable and innovative growth increasingly depends on how effectively it diversifies and repositions its export portfolio in the global market, or how the country "brand" itself through its exports to the world. Using data from UN Comtrade, we construct the Product Space model for Vietnam, visualizing the relatedness among the products in the country's export basket. Benchmarking against the Product Income Index (PRODY), the Product Gini Index (PGI), and the Product Complexity Index (PCI), we find that Vietnam's high-volume export products such as garments and textiles are hindering the country's development goals of sustainable growth, income equality, and innovation. Conversely, Vietnam has been able to export a number of small machine and precision equipment that yield higher added value in terms of sustainability and innovation, but these industries are lacking investment to scale up production. This suggests expansion strategies toward these precision tools and contraction for garments and textiles. Alternative options include radical innovation by shifting production to most knowledge-intensive products Vietnam is producing like cermet tools, or a moderate approach of pursuing export strategies of countries with slightly higher level of development than Vietnam.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Accounting for intergenerational educational immobility in low- and middle-income countries</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324336" />
    <author>
      <name>Könings, Fabian</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Schwab, Jakob</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324336</id>
    <updated>2025-08-23T01:45:26Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Accounting for intergenerational educational immobility in low- and middle-income countries
Authors: Könings, Fabian; Schwab, Jakob
Abstract: This study investigates intergenerational educational immobility and its transmission channels in four developing countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. From data elicited throughout children's childhood, we extract latent factors of children's attributes and their environments. We decompose educational immobility by analyzing the extent to which these factors mediate intergenerational persistence. The findings show that relevant channels in developed countries are also important in these developing countries. Additionally, developing-country specific factors, such as starting a family while underage and performing child labor, play a role. The factors' importance differs moderately between the countries. Other factors - most notably non-cognitive skills - play no role.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Declining job reallocation in Europe: The role of shocks, market power, and technology</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324214" />
    <author>
      <name>Biondi, Filippo</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Inferrera, Sergio</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Mertens, Matthias</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Miranda, Javier</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324214</id>
    <updated>2025-08-23T01:45:32Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Declining job reallocation in Europe: The role of shocks, market power, and technology
Authors: Biondi, Filippo; Inferrera, Sergio; Mertens, Matthias; Miranda, Javier
Abstract: We study changes in job reallocation in Europe after 2000 using novel microaggregated data that we collected for 19 European countries. In all countries, we document broad-based declines in job reallocation rates that concern most economic sectors and size classes. These declines are mainly driven by dynamics within sectors, size, and age classes rather than by compositional changes. Simultaneously, employment shares of young firms decline. Consistent with US evidence, firms' employment has become less responsive to productivity shocks. However, the dispersion of firms' productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these patterns, we derive and apply a firm-level framework that relates changes in firms' market power, labor market imperfections, and production technology to firms' responsiveness and job reallocation. Using German firm-level data, we find that changes in markups and labor output elasticities, rather than adjustment costs, are key in rationalizing declining responsiveness.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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