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With the exception of holders of default-free instruments, a key risk run by investorsis credit risk. To meet the need … of investors to hedge this risk, the market uses creditderivatives.The South African credit derivatives market is still … most popular credit derivatives in theSouth African financial markets. …
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Many power markets around the world have been facing inadequacy with generation capacity investment to meet the growing demand. Among various frameworks directed towards this problem, capacity markets have emerged in major eastern US power markets. In this paper, a prototype capacity market is...
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We examine two data sets, one from the UK (n = 15,750) and one from the US (n = 3239), to show that SME financial behaviour demonstrates substantial financial contentment, or ‘happiness’. We find fewer than 10% of the UK firms seek significant growth and only 1.32% of US firms list a...
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households that are credit constrained, which indicates an evasion strategy: business loans that cannot be obtained regularly are …, which prevents these entities from establishing a credit history and thereby entering the formal banking market. Banks …
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Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it hastypically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate a time-varying measure of riskaversion that is based on the observed risk...
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credit-money in financing innovation or variously being used for general accumulation or speculation. Institutional themes …
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," improving success rates and income and eliminating health hazards. In parallel, CDDP established a factory and self-help, micro-credit …
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This paper models firm survival in Kenyan manufacturing with a particular emphasis on the effect of credit on firm … and Weibull parametric hazard models. The main contribution of the paper is to highlight the role of credit in explaining …
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This article utilizes the Survey of Small Business Finances to compare and contrast trade credit practices of rural … credit. There is a strong direct relationship between various forms of debt held by these firms and their level of accounts … receivable (e.g., trade credit extended to customers). The actual level of re-lending varied among firms depending on their …
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Most of the literature attributes credit constraints in small-farm developing-country agriculture to the variability of …-theoretic credit market model with endogenous technology choice. The model demonstrates that lenders may refuse to finance any …
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