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substantial changes in banking system depth and formalization ratios have taken place and for which consistent data exists. Our …
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This paper studies how formal financial access affects network-based financial arrangements. We use a field experiment that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 Nepalese villages. Exploiting a unique panel dataset that follows all bilateral informal...
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Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that … success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument …
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...
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substantial changes in banking system depth and formalization ratios have taken place and for which consistent data exists. Our …
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and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
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, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …
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) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we found that, on average, around 11 percent of the … improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain was higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for …
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and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
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existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … hypothesis that spillovers are greater for FDI with more advanced technology. While efficiency of domestic firms’ is affected by … firm’s "absorptive capacity" we find: i) distance from the efficiency frontier tends to dampen horizontal spillovers in …
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