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Tax-Efficient Asset Management : Evidence from Equity Mutual Funds
Sialm, Clemens - 2015
Investment taxes have a substantial impact on the performance of taxable mutual fund investors. Mutual funds can reduce the tax burdens of their shareholders by avoiding securities that are heavily taxed and by avoiding realizing capital gains that trigger higher tax burdens to the funds'...
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U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts : From Mexico to LTCM
Stulz, Rene M. - 2000
This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471245
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What is the Value-Added for Large U.S. Banks in Offering Mutual Funds?
Kane, Edward J. - 1995
offered by a very large bank. This unpriced credit enhancement helps to explain the preference revealed by very large U … banks have been more eager than small banks to offer mutual funds and why bank mutual funds could be priced to grow at a … time when bank deposits were being priced to shrink …
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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466213
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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 1997
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472488
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Why is there Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 1995
their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473722
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The Adding Up Problem : A Targeting Approach
Krishna, Kala - 1995
of the lender (the Bank) as compared to those of the borrowers (the countries) must be clear. Second, the extent of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473899
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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512141
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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
Cadena, Ximena - 2011
the current loan), a 25% reduction of the interest rate in the next loan the borrower takes from the bank, or a monthly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461638
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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification
Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-random allocation of multilateral funding sources across nearby villages. African Development Bank (AfDB) projects used bundled … contracts while the World Bank (WB) employed unbundled contracts together with strengthened inspections. To measure impacts, we …
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