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Seasonal bias in household vulnerability to poverty stimates: insights from a natural experiment

Chiwaula, Levison; Waibel, Hermann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using data from 260 households from the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, the paper shows that vulnerability to poverty estimates are biased if the data used is seasonal. The seasonal bias in the consumption expenditure is less pronounced than in its variance. The paper further shows that the relative...

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Effectiveness of Microfinance under SGSY scheme to reduce Poverty and Vulnerability of Rural Households: A Natural Experiment

Kundu, Amit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper shows that government of India supported microfinance programme under SGSY scheme is partially effective to reduce poverty of the rural households. Few expansion of National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme plays here the supportive role. Taking the help of Natural Experiment it is...

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Economics of Smash-Hit Papers: Spillover Evidence from the 'Male Organ Incident'

Kässi, Otto; Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study explores the short-run spillover effects of popular research papers. We consider the publicity of 'Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?' as an exogenous shock to economics discussion paper demand, a natural experiment of a sort. In particular, we analyze how the very...

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Is There a Pollution Haven Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China

Lu, Yi; Wu, Mingqin; Yu, Linhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, we investigate whether there is a pollution haven effect, specifically, the effect of environmental regulations on firm location. Our identification uses the Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy implemented by the Chinese government in 1998. The difference-in-differences (DID)...

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Social Security and Labour Supply: the Italian 1992 Reform as a Natural Experiment

Ranzani, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides new evidence about the effects of economic incentives embedded in the Italian Social Security system on retirement decisions. The 1992 reform is an interesting example since it was implemented when: (a) the system was very generous to retirees; (b) the demographic context was...

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A User’s Perspective on the Database of Services Sector in Indian Economy

Rath, D.P.; Nayak, P.K.; Lakshmanan, L; Mandal, K; Raj, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

of the banking and software sectors and suggest ways of overcoming these problems. …

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Principle of uncertain future and utility

Harin, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

, the equity premium puzzle, etc. The principle and its consequences can be applied in the fields of banking, investment …

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The World and the Indian Banking Industry

Mishra, Garima; Goyal, Rashi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The Indian banking industry is presently in a situation of great flux. There are various developments, changes within …

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Corporate governance of banks: the current state of the debate.

Polo, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

banks, other authors, among whom Ross Levine and his co-authors from the World Bank, question heavily the present banking … future of banking regulatory design: should the regulatory intervention be the most important corporate control mechanism in … banking or should regulators focus on introducing incentives for appropriate market behaviour? …

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Audit Independence : Its Importance to the External Auditor's Role in Banking Regulation and Supervision

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The role of the external auditor in the supervisory process requires standards such as independence,objectivity and integrity to be achieved. Even though the regulator and external auditor perform similar functions, namely the verification of financial statements, they serve particular...

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