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Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust : Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock
Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2018
; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank … bank portfolios, while higher minimum capital requirements dampened the effects. Banks that responded most aggressively to … the asset boom had a higher probability of closing in the bust, and counties with more bank closures experienced larger …
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Sell Low and Buy High : Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets
Burke, Marshall - 2018
Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to "sell low and buy high" rather than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453239
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori - 2014
We examine whether returns to capital are higher for farmers who borrow than for those who do not, a direct implication of many credit market models. We measure the difference in returns through a two-stage loan and grant experiment. We find large positive investment responses and returns to...
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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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Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing : A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh
Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H.; Styczynski, Ashley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …
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Why do people stay poor?
Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment
Hussam, Reshmaan N.; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh …
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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem
Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Guiteras, Raymond; Levinsohn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either group financial incentives or a non-financial "social recognition …
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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show that in this environment the market might pool on...
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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains : Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479139