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Quality of information disclosure, property rights, and bank loans : A bank heterogeneity perspective
Chen, Xichan; Li, Wanli; Hu, Shiyang; Liu, Xing - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 12 (2019) 1, pp. 63-92
Using the context of the financial reform and the development of the non-state sector in China in the past decade, we examine the roles that the quality of information disclosure and property rights play in the allocation of different types of bank credit. We find that foreign banks and policy...
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The Impact of Legislationon Credit Risk; Comparative Evidence From the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Schmieder, Philipp; Schmieder, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This study investigates the link between bankruptcy and security legislation and potential credit losses faced by banks based on a cross-country study for the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. Focusing on corporate credit, we find that legislation produces the highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876595
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Evaluating the product portfolio of Japanese public service broadcaster: Consumer vs. citizen's view
Tsuji, Masatsugu; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
's channel×genre matrix management is oriented to the way as pay-TV or to public service value, PSM (Propensity Score Matching …) is employed. Using PSM, the sample population is divided into two groups, the consumer's view and the citizen's view, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161158
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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401655
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Adoption of improved groundnut seed and its impact on rural households' welfare in Eastern Ethiopia
Ahmed, Musa H.; Mesfin, Hiwot M.; Abady, Seltene; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18
This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern Ethiopia using a cross-sectional data collected from 301 sample households. To address this objective, both descriptive and econometric analysis methods were employed. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988708
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What is so special about robots and trade?
Alguacil Marí, María Teresa; Lo Turco, Alessia; … - 2020
robot adoption on the firm level export performance consists on combining propensity score matching (PSM) and difference in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405656
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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2021
-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491311
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Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: Evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia
Ahmed, Musa Hasen; Melesse, Kumilachew Alamerie - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching with a stochastic production frontier model that corrects sample selection bias resulting from unobserved factors that...
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The impact of agricultural package programs on farm productivity in Tigray-Ethiopia: Panel data estimation
Mebrahtu, Teka Araya; Lee, Sung-kyu - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-28
household-based agricultural package programs on farm productivity in Tigray region, and (ii) the propensity score matching (PSM … households have higher productivity than the non-beneficiaries. Secondly, the PSM estimation result ensures that the ATT is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657551
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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2020
-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327906