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Credit Conditions and Foreign Direct Investment During the Global Financial Crisis
Desbordes, Rodolphe - 2017
This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972610
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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?
Cull, Robert - 2017
This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation approaches. It finds that in low-income countries, labor growth is swifter in countries with a higher level of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975631
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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set
Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017
at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response … inform the policy debate. Using this database, this paper (i) counts the number of unbanked adults around the world at 56 …) discusses the state of financial inclusion mandates around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976198
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Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Growth Dynamics
Kassa, Woubet - 2018
This paper utilizes data for African countries to analyze the extent to which financial development affects the dynamics of the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and economic growth. The findings indicate that financial development exerts a positive influence on the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912272
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068213
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2017
relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976061
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The Changing Patterns of Financial Integration in Latin America
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
and South since the 2000s. The paper shows that the region is increasingly more connected with the rest of the world, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966021
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco - 2017
particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of "entrepreneurship" is critically discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972595
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance : Microeconomic Evidence from Advanced and Developing Countries
Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974872
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FDI Spillovers and High-Growth Firms in Developing Countries
Reyes, Jose-Daniel - 2017
enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943402