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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2012

With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important...

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Financial sector development in the Pacific Rim : [NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 18]

Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2009

Examines the institutional factors influencing financial innovation, the consequences of financial development, widespread consolidation occurring through mergers and acquisitions, and the implementation of policy reform.--From publisher description

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Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa

Levinsohn, James - 2004

This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes …

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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization

Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001

that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

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Competition and Bank Opacity

Jiang, Liangliang - 2014

Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the quality of information that banks disclose to the public and regulators? We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal accruals of loan loss provisions and the frequency with...

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Liberty for More : Finance and Educational Opportunities

Levine, Ross - 2013

Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class families. We define "able" students as those with learning aptitude scores in the top two-thirds of the U.S. population. We define "middle class" as families in which both parents...

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Does "Skin in the Game" Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Banking Reforms

Mitchener, Kris James - 2013

This essay examines how the Banking Acts of the 1933 and 1935 and related New Deal legislation influenced risk taking in the financial sector of the U.S. economy. The analysis focuses on contingent liability of bank owners for losses incurred by their firms and how the elimination of this...

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Financial Reforms and Capital Flows : Insights from General Equilibrium

Martin, Alberto - 2012

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge enough future profits to their creditors and this constrains the financing they can raise. Many have argued that, by relaxing these credit constraints, reforms that strengthen...

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Constituencies and Legislation : The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2011

The McFadden Act of 1927 was one of the most hotly contested pieces of legislation in U.S. banking history, and its influence was still felt over half a century later. The act was intended to force states to accord the same branching rights to national banks as they accorded to state banks. By...

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