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Seven Aspects of Loan Size
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Attempts to gauge the depth of outreach of microfinance organizations usually start--and often end--with the measurement of loan size. But just what is loan size? Loan size has at least seven aspects, each of which matters not only for depth of outreach but also for profitability. The aspects...
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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Using Administrative Data to Examine the Efficacy of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Mueser, Peter; Ryan, Sharon; Thielbar, Melinda - EconWPA - 1999
This paper investigates the feasibility of measuring the efficacy of programs designed to move welfare recipients into jobs using administrative records on individual program participation linked with state records on individual earnings. Like many states, Missouri collects quarterly earnings...
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Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Tale of Twins
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper uses a survey of 1062 Czechs and 524 Slovaks to ask why people evade taxes. We maintain that the Czech and Slovak Republics are “twins” separated at birth and that divergences between these countries since their separation in 1992 can explain divergences in their rates of...
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The Evolution of Tax Evasion in the Czech Republic: A Markov Chain Analysis
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
We use a dataset of 1062 individuals from the Czech Republic to forecast the evolution of tax evasion in that country. We ask each respondent how intensely (never, sometimes, often) he evaded taxes in 1995, 1999, and 2000, to calculate probabilities the average individual will move between these...
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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts
Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are subsidized savings accounts. Unlike other subsidized savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or 401(k) plans, IDAs are targeted to the poor, provide subsidies through matches rather than through tax breaks, and require...
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Resources Used to Produce Individual Development Accounts in the First Two Years of the Experimental Program of the American Dream Demonstration at the Community Action Project of...
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
This paper describes an attempt to measure resources used to produce Individual Development Accounts in a program run by the Community Action Project of Tulsa County. The experimental design of the program-- participants were selected from applicants at random--aims to inform the overall...
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Adjustment of the WACC with Subsidized Debt in the Presence of Corporate Taxes: the N-Period Case
Velez-Pareja, Ignacio; Tham, Joseph; Fernandez, Viviana - EconWPA - 2005
In the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) applied to the free cash flow (FCF), we assume that the cost of debt is the market, unsubsidized rate. With debt at the market rate and perfect capital markets, debt only creates value in the presence of taxes through the tax shield. In some cases,...
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