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How Credit Constrained Are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?

Gourene, Grakolet; Brixiova Schwidrowski, Zuzana; … - 2024

Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. Yet the issue is key for understanding barriers to the emergence of dynamic private sector and...

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Diffusion in Social Networks: Experimental Evidence on Information Sharing vs Persuasion

Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - 2024

We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...

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Media Capture by Banks

Durante, Ruben; Fabiani, Andrea; Laeven, Luc; Peydró, … - 2022

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...

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Are Entrepreneurs Aware of Covered Interest Parity and Dollar Shortage?

Nariman, Farhad; Heshmati, Almas - 2022

the reason why the broad dollar index has become a risk (leverage) gauge since 2008 using the Covered Interest Parity (CIP … the banking system. Overall, the risk appetite of the banking system is critical for both traditional and export … banking system’s risk appetite, but things have changed since the great financial crisis and the index has been supplanted by …

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Till Debt Do Us Part: Strategic Divorces and a Test of Moral Hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochguertel, Stefan; … - 2022

lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the …

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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 large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom...

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Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of eligible borrowers and their businesses, to estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at...

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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2013

Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....

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Trend in Energy Intensity and Carbon Performance in North Africa

Gourene, Grakolet; Hamouda, Samia Mansour; Brixiova, Zuzana - 2024

Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in North Africa, a region where even a relative decoupling of income growth and carbon (CO2) emissions...

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Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso

Boutin, Delphine; Petifour, Laurene; Allard, Yvonne; … - 2024

Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative...

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