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Preventing competition because of “solidarity”: Rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain

Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Spain is the only large European country in which airport management is strictly centralized and publicly owned. This peculiar institutional setting prevents competition among Spanish airports, and policy makers and bureaucrats in charge of the system regularly justify it on grounds of...

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Environmental and Natural Resource Degradation in Intensive Agriculture in Bangladesh

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

in Bangladesh have tended to mask evidence of declining productivity. Although data are weak, numerous sources of …-term trials by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also indicate that intensive rice cultivation can result in declining … Research Institute (IRRI). There is considerable debate over the exact causes of declining productivity. In Bangladesh, the …

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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh …

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Returns to education in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M Niaz - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey …

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Management von Mitarbeiterrisiken in Unternehmen Theoretische Grundlagen und Entwicklung eines praxistauglichen Erfassungs- und Auswertungsverfahrens

Dannenberg, Henry - EconWPA - 2005

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen Beitrag zur Bewertung von Mitarbeiterrisiken in Unternehmen dar. Es werden Ursachen determiniert, die einen Mitarbeiterausfall zur Folge haben. Diese werden auf ihre Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit sowie möglicher Schäden hin untersucht. Darauf aufbauend wird...

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INVESTING IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR OF EMERGING COUNTRIES: POTENTIAL RISK AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM

HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; HERRERO, SONSOLES GALLEGO; … - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of this article is to assess how the changing operations of international banks in emerging countries in the last decades have altered the risks they face as well as their mitigation techniques. The recent expansion of the international banking business through the setup of branches...

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Stochastics for the worst case: distributions and risk measures for minimal returns

Mihai, Mihnea-Stefan - EconWPA - 2003

Distributions for returns are used to compute the capital charge for portfolios in investment banks. The mainstream definition of returns is based on closing prices and neglects the important effects of intraday trading activity on the losses . In this paper we introduce ''minimal returns'', a...

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“The Consumer Financing Business in India” – Building Blocks for the Future

Gupta, Akash; Agarwal, Rahul - EconWPA - 2004

In view of this changing landscape, we look at the three major drivers of growth in consumer finance: auto finance, housing finance and consumer durable finance. We discuss the trends in each of these areas as well as the shortcomings which are slowing down growth. We present some of the...

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Did Producer Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Contract Decline?

Zanini, Fabio C.; Garcia, Philip - EconWPA - 1997

The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk...

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Extreme Moves in Foreign Exchange Rates and Risk Limit Setting

Dacorogna, Michel; Blum, Peter - EconWPA - 2003

Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...

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