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Financial Development in Asia : Beyond Aggregate Indicators
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
This paper documents the major trends in financial development in Asia since the early 1990s and the spillovers to firms. It compares Asia with advanced and emerging countries and uses both aggregate and disaggregate indicators. Financial systems in Asia remain less developed than in advanced...
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What Have We Learned from the Enterprise Surveys Regarding Access to Credit by Smes?
Kuntchev, Veselin - 2017
results hold to a large extent in all the regions of the developing world. Second, although size is a significant predictor of … confirms that throughout the developing world access to credit is inversely related to firm size but positively related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973852
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Deinstitutionalization and Institutional Replacement : State-Centered and Neo-Liberal Models in the Global Electricity Supply Industry
Henisz, Witold J.; Holburn, Guy L. F.; Zelner, Bennet A. - 2011
of foreign organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the behavior of peer countries …
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834265
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Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries
Hatayama, Maho - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834268
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936297
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970655
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Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian Context : Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Aker, Jenny C. - 2017
Despite recent calls in support of cash transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in humanitarian contexts, where a majority of such programs take place. This paper uses data from a randomized experiment in the Democratic...
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Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World
Montenegro, Claudio E. - 2017
Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that...
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Corporate Governance and Bank Insolvency Risk : International Evidence
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as proxied by the Z-score and the Merton's distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004-08 period. Banks are special in that "good" corporate...
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