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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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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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Co-movements in EU banks’ fragility: a dynamic factor model approach

Brasili, Andrea; Vulpes, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2004

We analyse co-movements in the fragility of EU banks and verify to which extent such co-movements have increased in time, following, for example, the completion of Monetary Union and the introduction of the euro. To this end, we provide a measure of co-movements in bank risk by means of a...

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Financial Liberalization Causes Banking System Fragility

Fischer, Klaus P.; Chenard, Martin - EconWPA - 1997

This paper explores theoretically and empirically the link between Financial Liberalization (FL) and the banking crisis that often follow. We also investigate the proposition, classical in development economics, that FL should result in an increase in supply of funds to the real sector. To...

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ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SEIGNIORAGE REVENUES: THE CASE FOR TURKEY 1970-1997

Halicioglu, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study is concerned with the components of the total seigniorage revenues that have been collected by the Turkish governments during the years 1970-1997. Traditionally, a government can increase the monetary base in order to finance its expenditures partially. This form of monetary finance...

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EMU, EURO and EU-Membership: An Evaluation from the Turkish Macroeconomic Perspective

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2003

Section of Cyprus are preparing their economy for a full-membership to the EU while Turkey, as an associate- member of the … Union since 1963 and as a part of customs union between Turkey and the EU since 1996, seems to be excluded from the next EU … Turkey different than the 11 membership candidate countries and the EU countries in terms of the ten selected macroeconomic …

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Turkiye'nin dunya ekonomisine entegrasyon sureci ( The integration process of Turkey into the world economy) (IN TURKISH)

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study brifly looks into the process of Turkey into the world economy and concludes that this process has been …

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PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE OF ECONOMISTS AND ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS IN TURKEY (1999-2003)

cokgezen, murat - EconWPA - 2005

This is the first study evaluating publication performances of economists and economics departments in Turkey. Findings …

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Exchange rates and employment in Turkish manufacturing

Filiztekin, Alpay - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on Turkish manufacturing employment and wages using data for a panel of manufacturing industries over the period 1981-1999. The net effect of depreciations are found to be negative for both employment and wages, though the effects...

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Revealing Turkeyâ€™s Public Debt Burden: A Transparent Payments Approach

Alioglu, Ertunc; Erbil, Can; Salman, Ferhan - EconWPA - 2004

We postulate a new method of identifying debt which we call Debt Burden (DB). We claim that DB reveals the true debt obligations of the fiscal authority. It is more accurate and transparent. Hence, DB would serve fiscal authority much better in policy making. It is powerful in a sense that it is...

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