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Regulation of the Electricity Industry in Bolivia: Its Impact on Access to the Poor, Prices and Quality

Bojanic, Antonio; Krakowski, Michael - 2003

This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments … of the urban population. The same cannot be said, however, about rural Bolivia. The results show that coverage has …

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Bolivien: Armut schweißt zusammen

Winter, Johannes - 2007

Die Verstaatlichungspolitik der sozialistischen Regierung spaltet die bolivianische Gesellschaft. Generell ist der Andenstaat ein Land voller Gegensätze: Das Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Ethnien, starke ökonomische und regionale Disparitäten und die trotz Ressourcenreichtum verbreitete...

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Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Lithium Extraction in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Aguilar-Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2009

is the key factor. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia holds the largest source of lithium in the world; however, its …

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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA

Cabezas, Brian F. - 2007

past few years, Venezuela and Bolivia have announced plans to renationalizetheir oil and natural gas industry.The first … focusing specifically on four countries – Bolivia,Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. There are various components influencing the …

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Receivables Securitization and the Non-Financial Firm

Korgaonkar, Sanket - 2009

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems experienced. The amount of Asset Backed Commercial Paper outstanding fell drastically in the middle of 2007 drawing our attention to this market. Our study focuses on the use of...

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How capital structure adjusts dynamically during financial crises

Ariff, Mohamed; Taufiq, Hassan; Shamsher, Mohamad - 2008

The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...

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Stress testing as a tool for simulating the effects of crisis in banks

Wiszniowski, Edward - 2010

Emergence of crisis in financial markets, especially banks, have forced a change in approach to riskmanagement. It has become necessary to develop new or refine existing models of early bankruptcythreat warning, as well as establishing the potential impact of bank failures. One of the tools,...

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Correlation Analysis of Financial Contagion: What One Should Know Before Running a Test

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pericoli, Marcello; Sbracia, Massimo - 2001

This paper builds a general test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis a test that can be interpreted as an extension of the normal correlation theorem. Contagion is defined as a structural break in the data generating process of rates of return. Using a...

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Measuring efficiency of the Farm Credit System

Dang, Trang; Leatham, David J. - 2011

The paper measures the U.S. Farm Credit System’s technical efficiency from 2000 to 2009 using a stochastic frontier production function model with quarterly unbalanced panel data. The paper's results suggest that the FCS has not efficiently utilized their inputs. On an average, the system...

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A magyar mezőgazdaság finanszírozásának főbb elemei a pénzügyi válságban

Kemeny, Gabor - 2010

Kutatásunk eredményeként megállapítottuk, hogy a mezőgazdasági finanszírozás fontosabb csatornái a közvetlen banki finanszírozás és a közvetett banki finanszírozás. Ez utóbbinál a bank nem közvetlenül a termelőt, hanem egy köztes szervezetet, leggyakoribb esetben...

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