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This paper presents a scoring model that predicts the risk of drop-out for borrowers at a microfinance lender in Bolivia. Drop-out risk was greater for women, manufacturers, newer borrowers, and those with more arrears. Out-of-sample tests suggest that scoring may help microfinance lenders to...
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Punitive damages are one of the most controversial aspects of tort litigation and have been the subject of various … litigation processes. In particular, Polinsky (1997) argues that the uncertainty and unpredictability that punitive damage claims …. With one of the largest and most comprehensive data sets of tort litigation (over 25,000 cases filed from 1994 through 1997 …
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The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...
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This is an Invited paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and "standard" economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful arguments and insights in a...
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Loss of biodiversity is regarded as one of the key problems affecting the environment. In order to demonstrate the significance of biodiversity, the value of individual species or ecosystems today is generally determined in science and practice. The underlying thought is that a species or...
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This paper analyses the development of the banking sector in twelve transition countries. Foreign banks have become …
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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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public liability insurance should not prevent benefits from recent government policy changes being passed onto consumers. The … Commission found that the market environment in which public liability claims are managed remains competitive and should provide …
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Q. What do you have when you have a lawyer up to his neck in sand? A. Not enough sand.
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Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain amount in a given time period due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of confidence. Value-at-Risk has received considerable attention from financial economists and financial practitioners...
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