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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters

Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Becerra, Oscar; Noy, Ilan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and 2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster flows, the typical surge is small in relation...

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Do airlines always suffer from crashes?

Ho, Jerry C.; Qiu, Mei; Tang, Xiaojun - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 113-117

We examine the impact of aviation disasters on the stock prices of the crash airlines and their rival airlines. Results show that the crash airlines experience deeper negative abnormal returns as the degree of fatality increases. The stock prices of the rival airlines also suffer in large-scale...

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Decomposing abnormal returns in stochastic linear models

Lin, Carl - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 143-147

This paper presents a method helpful in analyzing the sources of return in an event study. A generalized decomposition result derived from the differential between two random linear functions attributes the effect of events or regulations on the value of firms to differences in economy-wide and...

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Inter-Firm Linkages and Finance in Value Chains

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Navas-Alemán, Lizbeth; Kamiya, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The literature on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance highlights linkages with large firms in value chains … implications for SMEs. This paper explores this gap by looking for evidence on the impact of SMEs' access to finance of inter … technologies in Costa Rica), a comparison between the different sources and instruments of finance used by SMEs is presented. A …

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Indicadores de riesgo y de gestión del riesgo de los desastres: resultados para Nicaragua

Cardona, Omar D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

Los desastres naturales han repercutido en las perspectivas de desarrollo de muchos de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Nicaragua está al frente de esta infortunada realidad, estando localizada en una de las zonas del mundo más propensa a amenazas naturales. Con el fin de apoyar a...

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Should Public Budgets Finance Convention Centers?

Darling, Arthur H.; Beato, Paulina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned …

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Insurance for the Poor?

Dercon, Stefan; Bold, Tessa; Calvo, César - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

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From Intervention to Empowerment: A New Approach to Assisting SMEs in Latin America: Regulation, Procurement, and Dispute Resolution

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2008

This paper outlines some of the issues that affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in three areas: regulation, procurement, and dispute resolution. The work presented herein is part of the Bank's most recent efforts to develop new approaches and instruments to strengthen its role as a...

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The Rationale for Integrating Financial Supervision in Latin America and the Caribbean

Demaestri, Edgardo; Guerrero, Federico - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

Several developed and developing countries started to integrate their specialized supervisory institutions into a single entity during the past few years. A debate on the pros and cons of integrated supervision models emerged recently. Issues in favor and against integration have been...

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IDB Group Support to the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector (1990-2002): Achievements, Lessons and Challenges

Angelelli, Pablo; Guaipatín, Carlos; Almeyda-Stemper, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

Small and medium enterprises are estimated to account for at least 10 percent of the number of total businesses in most Latin American countries and between 20-40 percent of total employment. In the 1990's, 30 percent of new jobs were created by SMEs. Small companies have played a major role in...

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