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The Role of Trade Credit in the Spanish Agrogood Industry
Alarcon, Silverio - 2008
Trade credit is an important way of firm financing. Its habitualpractice and the excessive enlargement of the payment periods deteriorateprofitability of firms and even could affect the performance of the financialsystem. In spite of the relevance of this issue there are few empirical...
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Financial Discipline in the Enterprise Sector in Transition Countries: How Does China Compare?
Shumei; Shumei - 1998
This paper makes some selective comparisons of the empirical evidence relating to financial discipline and soft budget constraints in the enterprise sector in China and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEEFSU). The paper finds that: (1) in both...
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Revisiting Hungary's Bankruptcy Episode
Bonin, John P.; Schaffer, Mark E. - 1999
We take a retrospective look at Hungary's experiment with a particularly draconian bankruptcy law. For an eighteen-month period in 1992-93, the Hungarian bankruptcy code contained an unusual automatic trigger that required the managers of firms that held overdue debts of any size to any creditor...
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The Effect of Trade Credit on Operational Policies and on the Relationship Between Banks, Suppliers, and Manufacturers.
Brunet, Pierre-Yves - 2010
Companies in a broad range of industries and economies rely heavily on external sources to finance their operations. But, external financing could be expensive and/or difficult to obtain due to imperfections in real capital markets. I focus on cash-constrained manufacturers that rely on external...
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Theory and Practice of the Evaluation of the Company’s Trade Credit Risk
Petrulytė, Indrė - 2010
Magistro baigiamojo darbo tema yra aktuali, todėl, kad šiuolaikinėje ekonomikoje darbas atidėtų apmokėjimų principu tapo kasdieniu reiškiniu, tačiau įmonės savo pirkėjams taikydamos prekinius kreditus visuomet susiduria su rizika, kad debitorių įsipareigojimai nebus įvykdyti dėl...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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