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The Typology of Partial Credit Guarantee Funds around the World

Beck, Thorsten; Klapper, Leora F.; Mendoza, Juan Carlos - 2012

This paper presents data on 76 partial credit guarantee schemes across 46 developed and developing countries. Based on theory, the authors discuss different organizational features of credit guarantee schemes and their variation across countries. They focus on the respective role of government...

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What Does "Entrepreneurship" Data Really Show? A Comparison of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and World Bank Group Datasets

Acs, Zoltan J.; Desai, Sameeksha; Klapper, Leora F. - 2012

captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity; the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey dataset captures formal business … greater levels of early-stage entrepreneurship in developing economies than do the World Bank data. The World Bank data tend … economic development. A possible explanation for this is that the World Bank data measure rates of entry in the formal economy …

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Bank Ownership Type and Banking Relationships

Berger, Allen N.; Klapper, Leora F.; Martinez Peria, … - 2012

The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private domestic banks-in banking relationships, using data from India. The empirical results are consistent with all of their hypotheses with regard to foreign banks. These banks tend to...

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Corporate Governance, Investor Protection, and Performance in Emerging Markets

Klapper, Leora F.; Love, Inessa - 2013

Recent research studying the link between law, and finance has concentrated on country-level investor protection measures, and focused on differences in legal systems across countries, and legal families. The authors extend this literature, and provide a study of firm-level corporate governance...

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Bankruptcy Around the World : Explanations of its Relative Use

Claessens, Stijn; Klapper, Leora F. - 2013

The recent literature on law and finance has drawn attention to the importance of creditor rights in influencing the development of financial systems and in affecting firm corporate governance and financing patterns. Recent financial crises have also highlighted the importance of insolvency...

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