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SECURITIES MARKETS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA: RISKS AND POLICY OPTIONS

NWAOBI, GODWIN - EconWPA - 2005

The need to develop securities market has, following the recent international financial crises, increasingly attracted the attention of national and international policy makers. Never before have developed and developing countries shared such a strong interest in ensuring the stable growth of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561601

Banking Sector Crises and Related New Regulations in Turkey

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005

In Turkey, the financial sector is traditionally dominated by banking activities, and the banking sector experienced several systemic crises since late 1970s. This paper reviews and summarizes the major banking sector problems in the country. It also outlines the latest regulations and reform...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126288

Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126447

From Financial Liberalization to Banking Failure: Starting on the Wrong Foot?

Fischer, Klaus P.; Smaoui, Houcem - EconWPA - 1997

In this paper we attempt to identify the characteristics of banks that are most likely to be at the origin of a banking crisis following a financial liberalization (FL) process. We do this analysis in response to the observed fact that FL processes arse often followed by banking crisis that cost...

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New Trade Theory Takes Over Monetary Theory

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...

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The Non-Neutrality of Debt in Investment Timing: A New NPV Rule

Sabarwal, Tarun - EconWPA - 2004

Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur …'s option value, even after compensating a lender for expected default losses. This non-neutrality of debt arises from an …'s use of debt. Intuitively, limited liability lowers downside risk for the entrepreneur by truncating the lower tail of …

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Interest, debt and capital accumulation - a Kaleckian approach

Hein, Eckhard - EconWPA - 2005

In the present paper we explicitly introduce interest payments and debt into a Kaleckian distribution and growth model … the equilibrium debt-capital-ratio are also analysed. It is shown, that the effects of interest variations on the … interest rate and the debt- capital-ratio. If the conditions for short-run ‘normal’ effects of interest rate variations are …

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Interest rate, debt, distribution and capital accumulation in a post-Kaleckian model

Hein, Eckhard - EconWPA - 2004

. Lavoie (1995) has proposed a Kaleckian ‘Minsky-Steindl-model’ of distribution and growth, incorporating the effects debt and … debt services have on short and long run capital accumulation. This attempt, however, can be extended because neither has … effects of debt and debt services are explicitly introduced, the effects of interest rate variations on the short and the long …

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Argentina: Trying to Make Sense of the Financial Tango

Buchs, Thierry - EconWPA - 2005

opening, exchange rate policies, alternatives to debt financing and the role of the international financial institutions. The … 1991 and 2001, together with the lack of nationally coherent fiscal and development policies, led to a classic debt …

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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment. The biosphere is chosen in particular as object of analysis but this can be extended by means of an ecosystem recursive properties. The common factor involved in the relationship...

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