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Cull, Robert; Haber, Stephen; Imai, Masami - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? This paper analyzes a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and finds that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. The authors do...

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Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency : evidence from China

Cull, Robert; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Xi; Zhou, Li-An; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper uses data from a large survey of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government efforts to facilitate market development improve firm efficiency. Both government provision of information about products, markets, and innovation and government assistance in arranging loans are...

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Banks and microbanks

Cull, Robert; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Morduch, Jonathan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

microfinance institutions. They find evidence that competition matters. Greater bank penetration in the overall economy is … lending contracts (rather than the group lending methods favored by microfinance nongovernmental organizations). The analysis …

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Ownership structure and the temptation to loot : evidence from privatized firms in the Czech Republic

Cull, Robert; Matesova, Jana; Shirley, Mary - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Using a new data set on privatized firms in the Czech Republic, the authors examine how the design of privatization affects outcomes. Earlier studies of privatization in the Czech Republic focused largely on how the broad distribution of shares through vouchers may have motivated the new owners...

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The African financial development and financial inclusion gaps

Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Cull, Robert; Qian, Jun; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper investigates the African financial development and financial inclusion gaps relative to other peer developing countries. The paper uses a set of variables related to financial development and inclusion. It first estimates the gaps between African countries and other developing...

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Job growth and finance : are some financial institutions better suited to early stages of development than others?

Cull, Robert; Xu, L. Colin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

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...

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Resolving the African financial development gap : cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Cull, Robert; Qian, Jun; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds that population density appears to be considerably...

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A new index of the business environment for microfinance

Cull, Robert; Navajas, Sergio; Nishida, Ippei; Zeiler, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its … subcomponents to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting …

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Does foreign bank penetration reduce access to credit in developing countries"evidence from asking borrowers

Clarke, George R. G.; Cull, Robert; Peria, Martinez; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Existing evidence on the effect of foreign bank penetration on lending to small and medium-size enterprises is ambiguous. Case studies of developing countries show that foreign banks lend less to such firms than domestic banks do. But cross-country studies find that foreign bank entry fosters...

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Why privatize? : the case of Argentina's public provincial banks

Clarke, George R.; Cull, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

Argentina has been a leader among developing countries in restructuring its banking sector. The authors analyze the performance of those banks before and after privatization and estimate fiscal savings associated with privatizingArgentina's banks rather than keeping them public and later...

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