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Bank owners or bank managers : who is keen on risk? ; evidence from the financial crisis
Gropp, Reint; Köhler, Matthias - 2010
In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...
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Economic Governance of MFIs : Inside the Black Box
Arun, Thankom Gopinath - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … atmosphere that will enhance the achievement of microfinance social objectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138487
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Identifying the Poor - Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh-Baah, Samuel - 2022
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244242
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Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards : An Analysis of UK Firms
Muravyev, Alexander - 2014
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308423
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087867
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas - 2014
microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064121
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158049
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Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs : An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016
The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979861