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Measuring the performance of banks: Theory, practice, evidence, and some policy implications

2013

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …

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The performance of financial institutions: Modeling, evidence, and some policy implications

Hughes, Joseph P.; Mester, Loretta J. - 2018

charters from episodes of financial distress, and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of commercial banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of …

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The global financial crisis: how similar? How different? How costly?

Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Terrones, Marco E. - 2010

This paper provides a brief analysis of three major questions raised in the context of the recent global financial crisis. First, how similar is the crisis to previous episodes? We argue that the crisis featured some close similarities to earlier ones, including the presence of credit and asset...

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Eight strategies for development in comparison

Priewe, Jan - 2015

The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of … developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington … outward development with export-led growth, industrialisation or growth with predominant primary goods exports, foreign …

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - 2004

This paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The … produced, and in turn how that number may affect the development path of the economy. We then draw on our fieldwork in rural …

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ICTs and rural development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - 2006

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

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Disasters and the networked economy: A book summary

Albala-Bertrand, Jose-Miguel - 2014

This document summarizes the thrust of my monograph book Disasters and the Networked Economy (2003, NY: Routledge. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-66629-9). It is no substitution for the book, but it attempts to make salient the main concepts, explanations and conclusions of it. It does so by first...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Energy, poverty and development: A primer for the sustainable development goals

Goozee, Hannah - 2017

The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable …, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs … explicitly recognise the direct linkage between energy access and consumption and poverty and development. This evolution of the …

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Genetic diversity and economic development: Assessing the key findings in Ashraf and Galor (2013)

Caraher, Raymond; Ash, Michael - 2018

diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and … hypothesis that variation in genetic diversity among subpopulations has a systematic relationship with economic development. …

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