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Labor Share Fluctuations in Emerging Markets: The Role of the Cost of Borrowing
Kabaca, Serdar - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature by documenting labor income share fluctuations in emerging economies and proposing an explanation for them. We show that emerging markets differ from developed markets in terms of changes in the labor share over the business cycle. Labor share is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500184
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Liquidity premia, price-rent dynamics, and business cycles
Miao, Jianjun; Wang, Pengfei; Zha, Tao - 2014
In the U.S. economy during the past 25 years, house prices exhibit fluctuations considerably larger than house rents, and these large fluctuations tend to move together with business cycles. We build a simple theoretical model to characterize these observations by showing the tight connection...
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Do Financial Inclusion Indicators Affect Banks’ Profitability? Evidence from Selected Arab Countries
Jouini, Jamel; Obeid, Rami - 2022
study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236022
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Profit Testing of Profit Sharing Life Insurance Policies in the Presence of Extreme Risks
Le Courtois, Olivier; Shen, Li - 2023
This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A universal life policies, and variable annuities with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits, when investment returns are stochastic and modeled by normal or variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356168
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Credit Constraints in Latin America: An Overview of the Micro Evidence
Galindo, Arturo; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002
This paper summarizes and discusses new evidence on the nature, extent, evolution and consequences of financing constraints in Latin America; this evidence is drawn from a recent series of papers. The countries covered are Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay. All the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327164
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The Dynamics of External Financing
Jansson, Joakim - 2000
A dynamic process underlying firms' discrete financial choices has previously been found, but without controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, this dependence can either be of a true nature or an effect of firm-specific characteristics that we cannot observe. This study extends previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321743
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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102832
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Profitability and investment: Evidence from India's organized manufacturing sector
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2015
Using a state-industry panel data set at the 3 digit national industrial classification (NIC) level of disaggregation for 19 major Indian states over the period 1983-84 to 2007-08, we analyze the contemporaneous and long run impacts of the rate of profit and its components - profit share,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788881
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Profitability in India's organized manufacturing sector: The role of technology, distribution, and demand
Deepankar, Basu; Das, Debarshi - 2015
Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India's organized manufacturing … two medium run regimes, one of declining profitability (1982-83 to 2001-02), and another of growing profitability (2001 …-02 to 2012-13). We find six short run regimes, of which only two are periods of rising profitability, 1987-88 to 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526700
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The Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Investigation
Basu, Deepankar; Basole, Amit - 2012
Over the past four decades, India has witnessed a paradoxical trend: average per capita calorie intake has declined …
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