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Credit Scoring for Microfinance: Can It Work?

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

In rich countries, lenders often rely on credit scoring--formulae to predict risk based on the performance of past loans with characteristics similar to current loans--to inform decisions. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance lenders in poor countries? This paper argues that scoring...

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Corporate behaviour and competitive forces

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 based on a sample of more than 7,000 companies participating in the Balance Sheet Data Centre of the Banque de France. The objective is therefore to explain how productivity and...

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Parcerias Estratégicas da Banca Portuguesa em Portais Digitais

Leitão, João; Osório, Carlos; Gomes, Daniela - EconWPA - 2002

, Networks, Strategy, Banking. …

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An e-Business Model Ontology for Modeling e-Business

Osterwalder, Alexander; Pigneur, Yves - EconWPA - 2002

After explaining why business executives and academics should consider thinking about a rigorous approach to e-business models, we introduce a new e-Business Model Ontology. Using the concept of business models can help companies understand, communicate and share, change, measure, simulate and...

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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Ferreira, João - EconWPA - 2005

corporate entrepreneurship. They examined the effect of a firm’s strategy, organisation and external environment. It appears …

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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Ferreira, Joao - EconWPA - 2005

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Money-Scape: A Generic Agent-Based Model of Corruption

Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be one of the countries of the worst economic and...

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Growth patterns and economic performance of french manufacturing firms

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

Since early 1994, there have been signs of an upturn in economic activity . The strength and scope of the recovery depend to a large extent on the ability of companies to exploit their competitiveness, which is dependent on the decisions they take today, particularly where both tangible and...

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Inferring Strategies from Observed Actions: A Nonparametric Binary Tree Classification Approach

Engle-Warnick, Jim - EconWPA - 2000

This paper introduces a nonparametric binary classification tree approach to inferring unobserved strategies from the …. (1991). We find that strategy inference is consistent with existing inference, provides new explanations for subject … behavior, and provides new empirically--based hypotheses regarding ultimatum game strategies. We conclude that strategy …

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Coalition Strategies and Reduction of GHG Emissions

Patel, Vihang - EconWPA - 2005

The Flexible Mechanisms articulated in the Kyoto Protocol provide a robust framework for emission reduction issue in a manner that is not just economically efficient, but is also pro-growth for trade. In the presence of liquid or illiquid markets, to attain higher value from the emission...

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