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Firms’ Perceptions of the Business Cycle and Their Managerial and Financial Conditions
Asako, Kazumi; Ando, Koichi; Matsumoto, Kazuyuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Perception of the business cycle can differ among firms, which has been confirmed by extensive survey data. The question we want to answer in this paper is "What causes differences in business cycle perception?" by utilizing a newly designed questionnaire. Specifically, we match properties...
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Corporate Governance Changes in Pakistan’s Banking Sector : Is There a Performance Effect?
Burki, Abid A.; Ahmad, Shabbir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
commercial banks. We use stochastic cost frontier and panel data methods for an unbalanced panel data of Pakistani banks from … 1991 to 2005. We find overall bank cost inefficiency of 36%, which has decreased at the rate of 5.7% per annum. Our results …-term trends. Our results show that privatization and government restructuring of state-owned banks lead to substantial short …
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Corporate Governance in the Financial Sector of Pakistan
Chaudary, Faiza A.; Goergen, Marc; Syed, Shoeb I. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
paper analyses the banks ownership and control structure. It finds that Pakistan has its own idiosyncrasies, which are …
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Determinants of Interest Spread in Pakistan
Khawaja, Idrees; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
spread discourages savings and investments on the one hand, and raises concerns on the effectiveness of bank lending channel … 29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas industry … concentration has no significant influence on interest spread. One reason for inelasticity of deposits supply to the banks is the …
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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia : A Bangladesh Country Study
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia … and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes … strategy, South Asia and Southeast Asia have emerged as important economic partners of Bangladesh both in terms of export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278086
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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia : A Bangladesh Country Study
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia … and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes … strategy, South Asia and Southeast Asia have emerged as important economic partners of Bangladesh both in terms of export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278243
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Enhancing Intra-SAARC Trade : Pruning India’s Sensitive List under SAFTA
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Kaushal, Neetika; Chowdhury, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
competition include those items where the exporting country is competitive but India is not. Such items can remain on the …
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Enhancing Intra-SAARC Trade : Pruning India’s Sensitive List under SAFTA
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Kaushal, Neetika; Chowdhury, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
competition include those items where the exporting country is competitive but India is not. Such items can remain on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650943
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An Analysis of the national Budget : Allocation for the Ultra Poor
Khatun, Fahmida; Khan, Towfiqul Islam; Nabi, Ashiqun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the budgetary and fiscal measures which can be...
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Proposals for the National Budget 2009-10
Dialogue, The Centre for Policy - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The national budget for the fiscal year 2009-2010 will be an important event on a number of counts, particularly in the current national and global contexts. From the national perspective, it will be the first one by the newly-elected government. Arguably, it will be inspired by the election...
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