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Eurobonds : A Quantitative Analysis of Joint-Liability Debt
Tsiropoulos, Vasileios - 2019
This paper assesses the consequences of implementing a joint liability debt system in a two-country small open economy model. With joint liability a default of one country makes the other participant liable for its debt. The results highlight a trade-off between the contagion risk, in the sense...
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Corruption, the Business Environment, and Small Business Growth in India
Mengistae, Taye - 2016
industrial growth in India. The expected annual sales growth rate of an enterprise is lower where labor regulation is greater …
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … India also begins to integrate into global production chains and expands exports of manufactures, there seems to be …
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Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2019
This paper investigates how international regulatory and institutional differences affect lending in the cross-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and institutional arrangements. Multinational banks' choices...
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Gender Bias in SME Lending : Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Alibhai, Salman - 2020
Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer bias is measured through a novel loan application...
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Assessing Implementation of the Principles for Public Credit Guarantees for Smes : A Global Survey
Calice, Pietro - 2019
This paper presents evidence on implementation of the World Bank Group and Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative "Principles for Public Credit Guarantee Schemes for Small and Medium Enterprises" . The evidence is based on a self-assessment of 60 schemes in 54 countries. Overall,...
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Sae : A Stata Package for Unit Level Small Area Estimation
Nguyen, Minh - 2018
This paper presents a new family of Stata functions devoted to small area estimation. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areas/sub-populations. This is accomplished by incorporating information from outside...
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Taking Management Digital : Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia
Alibhai, Salman - 2018
In many aid projects, monitoring and evaluation is a static exercise driven by donor reporting requirements. After project closure, there are seldom sustainable benefits of the monitoring and evaluation system. This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation can be transformed into a dynamic...
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How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System? Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Campos, Francisco - 2018
Developing country governments seek to reduce the pervasive informality of firms for multiple reasons: increasing the tax base, helping firms access formal markets and grow, increasing the rule of law, and as a means to obtain data that can be used for other government functions. However, there...
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Micro-Equity for Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
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