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Liquidity, Volatility, and Equity Trading Costs Across Countries and Over Time
Domowitz, Ian; Glen, Jack; Madhavan, Ananth - 2000
Actual investment performance reflects the underlying strategy of the portfolio manager and the execution costs incurred in realizing those objectives. Execution costs, especially in illiquid markets, can dramatically reduce the notional return to an investment strategy. This paper examines the...
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet …
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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?
Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011
This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data...
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Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Benfica, Rui M.S.; Tschirley, David L.; Boughton, Duncan - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of threshold effects in land holdings and educational...
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Evaluation Strategies in Labor Economics -- An Application to Post-Secondary Education
Augurzky, Boris - 2000
Die Evaluierung der Investitionen in Ausbildung undihrer Wirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt ist in modernen Gesellschaften von zentralemInteresse. Gewöhnlich ist die Meinung gegenüber der ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichenRendite der Ausbildung positiv: ein Mehr an Ausbildung zieht eine...
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Economic issues associated with the operation and evaluation of telemedicine
Mistry, H - 2011
Telemedicine offers an alternative referral strategy for fetal cardiology but is currently only used for ?high-risk? pregnancies. A case-study of a cost-consequences analysis comparing telemedicine to direct referral to a perinatal cardiologist is initially presented, which highlights that for...
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Finance for all : the impact of financial literacy training in compulsory secondary education in Spain
Hospido Quintana, Laura; Villanueva López, Ernesto; … - 2015
En el marco del Programa «Finanzas Para Todos», el Banco de España y la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores coordinaron en 2013 un curso de Educación Financiera en 3.º de la ESO. Este curso fue impartido por los profesores de más de doscientos centros, y sus contenidos versaban sobre...
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Currency Crises and Financial Vulnerability in Dollarized Economies.
Kamil, Herman - 2011
The dissertation consists of three distinct chapters that contribute to important, yet unresolved topics in Macroeconomics and International Economics.Macroeconomists have been keenly interested in understanding how financial crisis turn into real recessions in emerging markets. By using a...
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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance: Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companies in Hungary and Poland
Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2004
We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, by analysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for the period 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out to obtain inferences about the sample companies’...
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