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This paper measures the rural households' willingness to pay (WTP) for access to public telephone services in … Bangladesh and Peru through contingent valuation methods. The development of contingent valuation methods together with the … local call varies from US$0.25 to US$0.35, and for a LDN call varies from US$0.33 to US$0.45. For Bangladesh, households …
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …
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telephone services with household income. It was found that, regardless of the income measurement, most characteristics of … public telephone usage are positively linked with income. Remarkably, the benefits occur at both non-farm and farm income …
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Why do political constituencies delegate decision power to representative assemblies? And how is the size of such assemblies determined? We analyze these questions of constitutional design in a model with voters learning their preferred alternative only after engaging in costly information...
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Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should – ceteris paribus – become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...
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The German financial system is characterized by lower degrees of penetration by foreign commercial banks and of (bank) disintermedation than, for instance, that of the United States. These differences between the two countries could be attributed to the fact that universal banking in Germany...
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Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...
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