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Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt?
Nadauld, Taylor - 2011
This paper investigates whether the securitization of corporate bank loans had an impact on the price of corporate debt. Our results suggest that loan facilities that are subsequently securitized are associated with a 15 basis point lower spread than that of loans that are not subsequently...
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Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Reproductive Behavior in Zambia
Wilson, Nicholas L. - 2012
the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia during the period 2000-2007 and provides some of the first evidence on …
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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
and corruption; fines lead to extortion of the innocent. Zambia has attempted to solve its problem with subsidies alone …
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Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Lucas, Adrienne - 2017
effect of at scale drug provision in a poor country, using the phased roll-out of ART in Zambia, a setting where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956379
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …
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Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty : Take-Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia
Jack, B. Kelsey - 2018
Many technology adoption decisions are made under uncertainty about the costs or benefits of subsequent investments in the technology after the initial take-up. As new information is realized, agents may prefer to abandon a technology that appeared profitable at the time of take-up. Low rates of...
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Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia
Ashraf, Nava - 2010
implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We …
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Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply : Evidence from Zambia
Fink, Günther - 2014
' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to …
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Bride Price and Female Education
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
countries that have had large-scale school construction projects, Indonesia and Zambia. Consistent with the model, we find that … Indonesia, as well as a similar program in Zambia, we find evidence consistent with this prediction. Although the program had no …
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
and agricultural production, we conducted a two-year randomized controlled trial with small-scale farmers in rural Zambia …
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