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Capital regulation and bank risk-taking behavior: Evidence from Pakistan

Ashraf, Badar Nadeem; Arshad, Sidra; Hu, Yuancheng - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-20

new Basel III Accord to counter excessive bank risk-taking behavior. However, prior theoretical as well as empirical … literature that studies the impact of risk-based capital requirements on bank risk-taking behavior is inconclusive. The primary … purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of risk-based capital requirements on bank risk-taking behavior, using a panel …

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Microcredit and survival microenterprises: The role of market structure

Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-25

Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very successful in helping survival microenterprises, i.e.,...

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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education

Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20

Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact...

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