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Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups

Richer, Jerrell - 1995

Data are compiled from the tax records of 29 major environmental organizations for the period 1980-1994 to identify factors that influence voluntary contributions. I examine the effects of organizational characteristics, such as fundraising expenditures and alternative sources of revenue, along...

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Pursuing Manufacturing-Based Export-Led Growth: Are Developing Countries Increasingly Crowding Each Other Out?

Razmi, Arslan - 2006

This study empirically investigates the presence of crowding out effects emerging from intra- developing country competition in export markets for manufactured goods. Export equations are estimated for a panel consisting of twenty major developing country exporters of manufactures, after...

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THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE FIRM SELECTION PROCESS IN A HOST COUNTRY: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA

Kejûar, Katja Zajc - 2006

This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period by assessing the impact of the entry and presence of foreign firms on a domestic firm’s probability of exiting. The results confirm...

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R&D investment and endogenous growth : a SVAR approach

Estrada García, Angel; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2009

We develop the barebones of a highly stylized theoretical endogenous growth model for analyzing the impact of R&D investment on long run growth. We use this framework to identify a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model on GDP growth, inflation and R&D investment, along with the...

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Sovereign debt markets in turbulent times : creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects

Broner, Fernando; Martín, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume; …

En 2007, los países de la periferia europea disfrutaban de un crecimiento estable, y défi cits fi scales y primas de riesgo reducidos. Sin embargo, la crisis fi nanciera global empujó a estas mismas economías a profundas recesiones, aumentando sus défi cits públicos y volúmenes de deuda...

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Essays on environmental and public economics

Williams, Roberton C. (contributor); … - 2011

This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...

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U.S. Mortgage crisis and its influence on Lithuanian market

Chitrenko, Nadežda - 2009

The main goal of Master thesis is to analyze U.S. mortgage crisis and test its influence on the particular Lithuanian … market player, pointing the drop and stabilization of its financial indicators. To reach this goal mortgage crisis reasons …

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The problem of front-end loading and disorder in the housing market

Leslie, Derek - 2001

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Economic Issues, published by and copyright Economic Issues Education Fund.

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Borrower Self-Selection, Underwriting Costs, and Subprime Mortgage Credit Supply

Nichols, Joseph; Pennington-Cross, Anthony; Yezer, Anthony - 2005

estimates of their creditworthiness. This contrasts sharply with mortgage markets where lenders specialize in specific risk … categories of borrowers and mortgage supply is stepwise linear. The contrast between continuous lending for personal loans and … discrete lending by specialized lenders for mortgage credit has led to concerns regarding the efficiency and equity of mortgage …

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Credit History and the Performance of Prime and Nonprime Mortgages

Pennington-Cross, Anthony - 2003

nonprime and prime loan default and prepayment behavior. Nonprime loans are identified by mortgage interest rates that are … to call the mortgage or refinance is in the money and this effect is magnified for mortgages with low credit scores …

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