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How Does Corporate Governance Affect Bank Capitalization Strategies?
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affected bank capitalization strategies for an international sample of banks in 2003-2011. "Good" corporate governance, which favors shareholder interests, is found to give rise to lower bank capitalization. Boards of...
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Re-Evaluating Microfinance : Evidence from Propensity Score Matching
Cintina, Inna - 2017
This paper evaluates effectiveness of microfinance using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method applied to data collected in a recent randomized control trial. This method allows one to answer an additional set of questions not answered by the original study and provide more nuanced evidence by...
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Dreher, Axel - 2017
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
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Deals and Delays : Firm-Level Evidence on Corruption and Policy Implementation Times
Freund, Caroline L. - 2017
that corruption enhances efficiency …
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Allocative Inefficiencies Resulting from Subsidies to Agricultural Electricity Use : An Illustrative Model
Strand, Jon - 2017
electricity to illicit uses can increase overall economic efficiency when this leads to less electricity use by farmers, thus …
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How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
Herrera Dappe, Matias - 2017
studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency … Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that …
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Water When it Counts : Reducing Scarcity Through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
Christian, Paul - 2018
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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Survival of Firms During Economic Crisis
Bosio, Erica - 2020
corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …
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Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Cote D'Ivoire : Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition Over the Past Decade
Donald, Aletheia Amalia - 2020
This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …
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Firms Far Up : Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant … associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …
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