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The transactions costs of primary market issuance : the case of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Zervos, Sara - 2004
"Zervos documents the precise costs of debt and equity issuance, both domestically and internationally, for firms in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Costs include investment banking and legal fees, regulatory and exchange listing costs, rating agency fees, and expenditures for marketing and...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep - 2009
"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394113
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Taxation and capital structure : evidence from a transition economy
Klapper, Leora - 2008
"The authors examine the effects of taxation on financing policy using the corporate tax reform in 2001 in Croatia as a natural experiment. Since the extant literature on tax effects on capital structure studies listed firms in developed countries, it is worth investigating whether the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521006
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Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatized infrastructure in developing countries?
Estache, Antonio - 2004
"Da Silva, Estache, and Jarvela describe the evolution of the financing structure of regulated privatized utilities and transport companies. To do so, they rely on a sample of 121 utilities distributed over 16 countries, and 23 transport infrastructure operators and 23 transport services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522960
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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009
panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394124
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The return to firm investment in human capital
Carneiro, Pedro - 2006
training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522209
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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity
Antman, Francisca - 2005
. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …
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Earnings mobility and measurement error : a pseudo-panel approach
Antman, Francisca - 2005
and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522455
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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence
Shankar, Rashmi - 2005
probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522552
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The dynamics of school and work in rural Bangladesh
Canals-Cerda, Jose - 2004
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