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Estudio intrapaíses de la competitividad global desde el enfoque del doble diamante para Puerto Rico, Costa Rica y Singapur
Castro-Gonzáles, Segundo; Peña-Vinces, Jesús; … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 3, pp. 122-130
Many researchers and economists have argued that competitiveness studies conducted by WEF and IMD, show limitations in small-economies, even more when they have different characteristics. The objective of this research is to study the competitiveness of three small-economies: Puerto Rico, Costa...
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Banks versus hurricanes: A case study of Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria
Anagnostakos, Peter; Bram, Jason; Chan, Benjamin; … - 2023
disasters affect bank stability and their ability to lend. Despite the devastation wrought by two category 5 hurricanes in a … single month, we find relatively modest and transitory impacts on bank performance with no evident decline in lending … capacity. We discuss various mitigants that help limit bank exposure to extreme weather and whether these mitigants may be …
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Estimating the effects of partial withdrawals on GPA through time: Evidence from the University of Puerto Rico
Matos-Díaz, Horacio - In: EconomiA 19 (2018) 1, pp. 90-104
Although a direct relationship among partial withdrawals (Ws), GPA and grade inflation (GI) is suggested in prior research, this study demonstrates just the opposite. Evidence from a detailed panel-data comprising 34,426 sections offered in the UPR-Bayamón during 36 consecutive terms...
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Puerto Rico's minimum wage: Revisiting a price floor with bite
Omberg, Robert Tucker - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25
Revisiting research from the 1990s from Castillo-Freeman and Krueger, I use the synthetic control method of Abadie et al. to estimate the impact of the most recent increase in the federal minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. I estimate that the employment/population ratio of various groups...
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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003
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Hedging with Credit Derivatives and its Strategic Role in Banking Competition
Pausch, Thilo; Schweimayer, Gerhard - 2004
The tremendous growth of markets for credit derivatives since the mid 1990's has raised questions regarding the role of these instruments in the banking in- dustry which is heavily exposed to credit risk. However, while recent literature mainly focused on pricing and optimal decisions regarding...
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The German banking system and the global financial crisis: Causes, developments and policy responses
Bleuel, Hans-H. - 2009
Germany's banking sector has been severely hit by the global financial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009, this paper reviews briefly the structure of the banking industry, quantifies effects of the crisis on banks and surveys responses of economic policy. It is argued that policy...
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Banking in Africa: financing transformation amid uncertainty
2020
In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa's banking sectors and the policy options for all stakeholders. The study of banking sectors across all African sub-regions includes the results of the EIB survey of banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic...
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Will video kill the radio star? Digitalisation and the future of banking
Beck, Thorsten; Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Grothe, Magdalena; … - 2022
The contribution of financial and non-financial risks to the overall level of risk in the system depends on the current state of the EU banking system (which, in the aggregate and compared with banking sectors in other major advanced economies, cannot be characterised as strong) and how...
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Las malas prácticas bancarias no rectificadas: Una medición de su influencia en la desconfianza de la clientela
Lozano Gutiérrez, Carmen; Fuentes Martín, Federico - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2015), pp. 1-20
from the Bank of Spain (supervisor) in favor of the claimants and against the actions of the financial institution is not … not rectified by the entity and the levels of mistrust and sense of impunity that the bank client perceives from the Bank …
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