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Financial inclusion and threshold effects in carbon emissions

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine; Rault, Christophe - 2024

While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green technologies. This papier investigates whether the financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon...

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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country

Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …

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Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth?

Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2019

estimation, the paper estimates a growth model using the difference in the log of GDPC between periods t and t+1. Buttressed by … sufficient empirical evidence, the paper's findings corroborate that the Arab Spring had been negatively associated with growth …

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Finance, informal competition, and expectations : a firm-level analysis

Brancati, Emanuele; Di Maio, Michele; Rahman, Aminur - 2022

This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show … informal competition have worse expectations on future sales growth, which in turn are associated with a lower probability of … in firms' access to finance. …

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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries, 1986 - 2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2014

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …

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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015

.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …

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Too fast, too furious? : digital credit delivery speed and repayment rates

Burlando, Alfredo; Kuhnk, Michael A.; Prina, Silvia - 2023

Digital loans are a source of fast, short-term credit for millions of people. While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions, default rates are high. We study the role of the speed of delivery of digital loans on repayment. Our study uses unique administrative data from a...

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Diffusion in social networks : experimental evidence on information sharing vs persuasion

Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - 2024

We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...

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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …

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Financial dependence, formal credit, and informal jobs : new evidence from Brazilian household data

Catão, Luis; Pagés, Carmen; Rosales, Maria Fernanda - 2009

more dependent on external finance. We also decompose shifts in aggregate formalization into those within each firm size …

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