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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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Abstract Australia has voluntary private health insurance (PHI) markets in which open enrolment and community rated premiums are mandated by government. Historically, adverse selection in these markets led to a substantial decline in coverage, giving voice to fears about the viability of PHI...
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A brief examination of public and private debt suggests that the relation between the two is highly significant, and that recent concerns about the need for austerity are misplaced.
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lowest to induce repayment in closed economy models with domestic credit crisis. …
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In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty … Metropolitan area of Mexico City. The paper provides an estimation of the impact of credit, employing different equivalence scales …
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that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where … mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks to deny credit to small business loan applicants. However, this … one set of banks, those in the process of acquiring other banks, are less likely to deny credit to small businesses. These …
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unique category. The most represented type of risk in credit is a credit risk. It is possible to divide factors of risk … between decision-making and investment influences the size of a credit risk. The length of credit structure influences the … risk. The cognition of debtor's debt servicing potential, methods of coverage credit risk and indicators of credit risk …
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analysis and formal econometric tests based on several indicators of the credit market. First of all, the descriptive analysis … shows that the main relationship between credit indicators, monetary policy and economic activity are in line with the … predictions of the credit channel theory. Additionally, it highlights the fact that bank loans in Brazil are predominantly short …
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differentials between the domestic and international markets (indicating arbitrage) and the credit conditions. The real variable …
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-employment as well as wage employment at a time to increase their welfare. The shifters due to relaxation of credit constraint or … proliferation of access to credit moves toward sole self-employment activity with higher likelihood than the dual activity – to be …
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