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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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Integrating Services in the Economic Fitness Approach
Zaccaria, Andrea - 2018
methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete …
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Antidumping and Market Competition : Implications for Emerging Economies
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
major tool in the trade policy arsenal. The paper examines these concerns in light of important ways in which the world …
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How Bank Competition Affects Firms'Access to Finance
Love, Inessa - 2017
of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition, as measured by high values of the Lerner … firms' access to finance. In addition, they find that the impact of competition on access to finance depends on the … information, can mitigate the damaging impact of low competition. But other characteristics, such as high government bank …
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Is the Financial Safety Net a Barrier to Cross-Border Banking?
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
A bank's interest expenses rise with its degree of internationalization, measured by its share of foreign liabilities in total liabilities or a Herfindahl index of international liability concentration, especially if the bank is performing badly. The results in this paper suggest that an...
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Learning the Impact of Financial Education When Take-Up is Low
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel - 2017
Financial education programs are increasingly offered by governments, nonprofits, and financial institutions. However, voluntary participation rates in such programs are often very low, posing a severe challenge for randomized experiments attempting to measure their impact. This study uses a...
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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018
This paper provides novel evidence on status goods, using a series of field experiments with an Indonesian bank that markets platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, the paper shows that demand for the platinum card greatly exceeds demand for a nondescript control...
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Moral Incentives : Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018
This paper studies the role of morality in the decision to repay debts. Using a field experiment with a large Islamic bank in Indonesia, the paper finds that moral appeals strongly increase credit card repayments. In this setting, all of the bank's late-paying credit card customers receive a...
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Product Market Competition, Productivity, and Jobs : The Case of South Africa
Dauda, Seidu - 2020
. However, there has been little evidence on what drives market power and the impact of the degree of competition in South …-level determinants of the estimated markups and assesses the link between competition and firm-level outcomes, including productivity … South Africa, even after controlling for efficiency. Moreover, lower product market competition has a significant, negative …
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