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OTC derivatives market in India : recent regulatory initiatives and open issues for market stability and development
Arora, Dayanand; Rathinam, Francis Xavier - 2010
development. On the issue of the much discussed competition between exchange-traded and OTC-traded derivatives, we believe that …The OTC derivatives markets all over the world have shown tremendous growth in recent years. In the wake of the present … financial crisis, which is believed to have been exacerbated by OTC derivatives, increasing attention is being paid to analysing …
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External capital structures and oil price volatility
Burger, John D.; Rebucci, Alessandro; Warnock, Francis E.; … - 2010
This paper assesses the extent to which a country s external capital structure can aid in mitigating the macroeconomic impact of oil price shocks. Two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks are considered: an oil importer (Jamaica) and an oil exporter (Trinidad and Tobago)....
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Bank competition and the price of credit : evidence using Mexican loan-level data
Cañón, Carlos Iván; Cortés, Edgar; Guerrero, Rodolfo - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between competition measures at the bank level and the price of credit for non …-financial firms in Mexico during 2009-2016. Two indicators of competition are constructed: the Lerner indicator and the Boone …
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The effects of margin changes on commodity futures markets
Daskalaki, Charoula; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014 - This draft: 24 October 2014
In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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Foreign entry and bank competition
Sengupta, Rajdeep (contributor) - 2006
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Informational switching costs, bank competition and the cost of finance
Ornelas, José Renato Haas; Silva, Marcos Soares da; … - 2020
This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence …
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Competitive provision of digital goods
Sartori, Elia - 2024
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Foreign vs. domestic listing: an entrepreneurial decision
Ding, Yuan; Nowak, Eric; Zhang, Hua - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
In this paper, we use a unique hand-collected dataset to analyze stock listing as an entrepreneurial decision. By comparing mainland Chinese entrepreneurial firmslisted in Hong Kong with the same type of firms opting for a domestic listing on the Shenzhen second board market, we argue that the...
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ESG factors and firms' credit risk
Bonacorsi, Laura; Cerasi, Vittoria; Galfrascoli, Paola; … - 2022
We study the relationship between the risk of default and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors using Supervised Machine Learning (SML) techniques on a crosssection of European listed companies. Our proxy for credit risk is the z-score originally proposed by Altman (1968). We...
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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004
Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that...
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