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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
Mariotti, Francesco - 2014
We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …
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The Determinants of China's International Portfolio Equity Allocations
Agarwal, Isha - 2020
. Diversification and information advantages related to foreign imports to China seem to influence patterns of foreign portfolio …We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its …
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham - 2014
countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057462
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095977
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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service : Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa : Perceptions Matter
Kostov, Philip - 2013
This study investigates the access to and usage of financial services in South Africa. Financial services are categorised in three types namely; general accounts and services, investment/savings and insurance/assurance. Taking into account the interactions between usage of different types of...
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Is Climbing Difficult? A Gendered Analysis on the Use of Financial Services in Ghana and South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2013
This paper examines the gender gaps in the use of higher-order financial services such as investment and insurance, draws on the FinMark national-level data from Ghana and South Africa. The main observation is that females in South Africa are more likely to use general financial and investment...
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