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"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns using an international sample of 1,334 banks in 101 countries leading up to the 2007 financial crisis. Expansion into non-interest income generating activities such as trading...
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"For a foreign "issuer," the benefits of cross-listing in the United States are extensively documented in the literature. However it is not clear what motivates "investors" to hold American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) rather than the underlying stock of these issuers. The authors address the...
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infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks …
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"The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs … most of the poor live. The benchmarking is envisaged as a comparative input into deeper analyses of infrastructure …
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"The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four …
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"The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … the aggregate and in both rural and urban areas. Finally, this benchmarking, combined with more in-depth, sector analyses …
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