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Help in a Foreign Land : Internationalized Banks and Firms' Export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms’ export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

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Incentive Pay and Performance : Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Bogaard, Hein - 2013

We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...

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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2020

We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...

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Chinese Returnees and High-Tech Sector Outward FDI : The Case of Changzhou

Chen, Zhao - 2016

The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the 2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms,...

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Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel L. - 2010

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...

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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India : An Assessment

Mazumder, Rabin - 2014

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...

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Repayment Versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts

Bougheas, Spiros - 2010

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action ('investment'). We build an...

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