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Anatomy of Credit-Less Recoveries
Corrado, Luisa - 2018
The recovery from the global crisis that erupted in 2007 shows that the decoupling between real and financial variables during the business cycle can lead to negative and long-lasting consequences for the economy. A key feature of the past global crisis in many countries is that the recovery in...
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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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Multidimensionality and Renegotiation : Evidence from Transport-Sector Public-Private-Partnership Transactions in Latin America
Estache, Antonio - 2016
Multidimensional auctions are a natural and practical solution when auctioneers pursue more than one objective in their public-private-partnership transactions. However, it is difficult to achieve auction efficiency with multiple award criteria. Using auction data from road and railway...
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Survival of Firms During Economic Crisis
Bosio, Erica - 2020
scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's Enterprises Surveys. Under the assumption that firms have no …
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Informed Trading in Business Groups, Ownership Concentration, and Market Liquidity
Leano, Miguel - 2017
Business groups, which are collections of publicly traded companies with significant amount of common ownership, dominate private sector activity in developing countries. This paper studies how information flows within these groups by analyzing the trading behavior of pension fund managers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968762
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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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