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market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the …, equity market liberalization is associated with the different effects of credit constraints on the persistence of cross …
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other transition economies, Slovenia has raised less short-term bank credit from abroad. Moreover, there are indications …
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Mercosur countries have witnessed a boom of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows since the early 1990s. However, regional integration, viewed in isolation, was not sufficient for the subregion to regain its attractiveness to FDI. FDI growth in individual Mercosur countries was closely related...
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This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate several specifications to provide support of such relationship for MENA countries over the period 1980-2009. The findings provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in...
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This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US banks. The fact that many regulators have no detailed data sets about interbank cross-exposures raises the necessity of finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the...
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banks as providers of informational and of risk-diversification services. By eliminating exchange rate risks, the euro … enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …, the home bias will remain. It is also argued that positive diversification effects may outweigh possible negative effects …
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Apart from altruistic reasons, NGOs may engage in developing countries under conditions of conflict and war in order to secure funding and survive in the ‘market’ of humanitarian relief and development assistance. Applying a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze...
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This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown that temporary migrant households have additional...
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In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth. namely whether the financial structure -in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital markets- matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981–98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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