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Women in Fintech: As Leaders and Users
Khera, Purva - 2022
digital financial inclusion, its impact on gender gaps varies across countries. Moreover, women leaders in the fintech … industry, although growing, remain scarce. This paper explores the interaction between 'women' and 'fintech' by examining: (i …) the role of women leaders on firm-level performance in the fintech industry; and (ii) the determinants of gender gaps in …
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Fintech, Female Employment, and Gender Inequality
Loko, Boileau - 2022
Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves female employment and reduces gender inequality, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060381
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The role of risk and information for international capital flows : new evidence from the SDDS
Hashimoto, Yūko; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012
In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659821
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D Spillovers and Institutions.
Coe, David T. - 2008
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...
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Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe.
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: AGGREGATE DATA -- III. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: BILATERAL DATA -- IV. CAPITAL FLOWS AND EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENT -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.
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Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses.
Rochon, Céline - 2006
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Do Some Forms of Financial Flows Help Protect from Sudden Stops?.
Levchenko, Andrei A - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BEHAVIOR OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF FINANCIAL FLOWS -- III. BEHAVIOR DURING SUDDEN STOPS IN FINANCIAL FLOWS -- IV. CONCLUSIONS AND POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS -- REFERENCES.
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Prasad, Eswar - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677369
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Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity
Elkjaer, Thomas - 2009
This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally...
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Being a Foreigner Among Domestic Banks
Horen, Neeltje van - 2009
Studying a large number of banks in various countries between 1999 and 2006, we document that foreign banks perform better when from a high income country, when host country competition is limited, and when they are large and rely more on deposits for funding. Foreign banks' performance improves...
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