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Beyond the crisis : prospects for emerging Europe
Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the 2008-09 global financial and economic crisis on the medium-term growth prospects of the countries of central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, which began an economic transition about two decades ago. We use cross-country growth regressions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907983
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Interest rates and implications for microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Campion, Anita; Ekka, Rashmi Kiran; Wenner, Mark D. - 2010
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high … profit-making MFIs charging lower interest rates. We also find that interest rate caps reduce the outreach of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294486
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801992
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2023
We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that — as long as the wife is involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014371964
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Accelerated depreciation, default risk and investment decisions
Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2016
In this article we focus on a representative firm that can decide when to invest under default risk. On the one hand, this firm can benefit from generous tax depreciation allowances, on the other hand it faces a default risk. Our aim is to study the effects of tax depreciation allowances in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451578
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Corporate tax incentives and capital structure : empirical evidence from UK tax returns
Devereux, Michael P.; Maffini, Giorgia; Xing, Jing - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292357
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Debt and transfer pricing: implications on business tax policy
Comincioli, Nicola; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2020
In this article we introduce model to describe the behavior of a multinational company (MNC) that operates transfer pricing and debt shifting, with the purpose of incrementing its value, intended as the sum of equity and debt. We compute, in a stochastic environment and under default risk, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306718
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Business tax policy under default risk
Comincioli, Nicola; Vergalli, Sergio; Panteghini, Paolo - 2019
In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk. We will show that, for a given tax rate, the government has an incentive to reduce (increase) financial instability and default costs if its objective function is welfare (tax...
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Bank leverage, welfare, and regulation
Admati, Anat R.; Hellwig, Martin - 2018 - Revised November 19, 2018
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