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Does access to microfinance affect consumption inequality? :evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Andhra Pradesh, India
Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the impact of access to microfinance on consumption inequality using panel data of 6080 households … access to microcredit exacerbates consumption inequality both at the slum-level and the household-level. Further … decomposition of inequality indices shows that this difference in consumption inequality is predominantly driven by expenditure on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111658
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La profitabilité des secteurs de l’économie sénégalaise
Diagne, Youssoupha S; Sène, Serigne Moustapha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper focuses on performance measures based on a panel of 22 sectors of the Senegalese economy. A particular …. Markov Chains test was conducted to check the persistence of profitability among sectors. The findings revealed the absence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107598
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IDE et retards d'investissement de l'entreprise domestique au Sénégal : une solution par la gouvernance d'entreprise
Sene, Serigne Moustapha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper focuses on agency theory to explain investment behavior difference between private domestic and foreign in … using in panel of 187 firms. The results reveal that investment sensibility to uncertainty, sales and free cash flow is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111793
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Internal finance and corporate investment: Belgian evidence with panel data
Barran, Fernando; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
In this paper the corporate investment decision under financial restrictions is investigated with Belgian firm data from 1984 to 1992. An investment Euler equation is derived from a dynamic optimization model with debt ceilings and an elastic credit supply. The model is estimated by GMM for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836729
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IDE et retards d'investissement de l'entreprise domestique au Sénégal : une solution par la gouvernance d'entreprise
SENE, Serigne Moustapha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper focuses on agency theory to explain investment behavior difference between private domestic and foreign in … using in panel of 187 firms. The results reveal that investment sensibility to uncertainty, sales and free cash flow is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789579
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IDE et retards d'investissement de l'entreprise domestique au Sénégal : une solution par la gouvernance d'entreprise
Sene, Serigne Moustapha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper focuses on agency theory to explain investment behavior difference between private domestic and foreign in … using in panel of 187 firms. The results reveal that investment sensibility to uncertainty, sales and free cash flow is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619637
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Growth is (really) good for the (really) rich
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Chavez, Emmanuel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
that of Dollar and Kraay (2002), but instead of looking at the bottom of the distribution, we analyze the top. We use panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257836
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The Relationship between the Equivalence Scale and the Inequality Index and Its Impact on the Measurement of Income Inequality
Okamoto, Masato - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper discusses the ∪-shaped relationship between the equivalence scale n^ε and the Gini index instead of considering the equivalence scale’s relationship to the generalised entropy measures, which was studied by Coulter, et al. (1992). An end-point condition is given for the ∪-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259680
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Measuring concentration in economic sectors by h-index and g-index
Bartolucci, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We show that the h-index and the g-index, which are commonly used to mea- sure the research productivity of a scientist, may be seen as concentration indices. For these indices we also propose transformations that make them always ranging between two known limits, which correspond to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107848