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Improving aid effectiveness in aid-dependent countries : lessons from Zambia

Beuran, Monica; Raballand, Gaël; Revilla, Julio - HAL - 2011

Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached … over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …

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Overview of the Current Food Security Crisis in Zambia

Samatebele, Helen M - HAL - 2003

Zambia was economically prosperous at independence (1964), due to the thriving copper industry. Zambia has the … economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex …

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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks

Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

This paper compares the loans granted to male and female entrepreneurs by a French microfinance institution (MFI). The sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with...

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The use of accounting and stock market data to predict bank financial distress: the case of East Asian banks

Distinguin, Isabelle; Tarazi, Amine; Trinidad, Jocelyn - HAL - 2011

This paper investigates whether market information could add to accounting information in the prediction of bank …

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Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods

LEON, Florian - HAL - 2014

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The structural approach infers the degree of competition from...

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Nominal Uniqueness and Money Non-neutrality in the Limit-Price Exchange Process

Giraud, Gaël; Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. - HAL - 2010

We define continuous-time dynamics for exchange economies with fiat money. Traders have locally rational expectations, face a cash-in-advance constraint, and continuously adjust their short-run dominant strategy in a monetary strategic market game involving a double-auction with limit-price...

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Are early market indicators of financial deterioration accurate for Too Big To Fail banks? Evidence from East Asia

Distinguin, Isabelle; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2010

This paper investigates whether market information is reliable to predict financial deterioration of large Too Big To Fail banks in Asia. A stepwise logit model is first estimated to isolate the optimal set of accounting indicators to predict rating downgrades. The model is then extended to...

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The use of accounting and stock market data to predict bank financial distress: the case of East Asian banks

Distinguin, Isabelle; Tarazi, Amine; Trinidad, Jocelyn - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates whether market information could add to accounting information in the prediction of bank …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821430

Activity-based Management in France: A focus on the information systems department of a bank

Wegmann, Grégory - HAL - 2011

diffusion. Then we present the French situation. Finally, we propose a case study that takes place in a French bank. Our paper …

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A Rational Irrational Man?

Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006

A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...

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