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The political economy of local cinema: A critical introduction
Rajala, Anne Lill (contributor);  … - 2020
The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321708
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Sovereign Debt Sustainability: Multilateral Debt Treatment and the Credit Rating Impasse
Cash, Daniel - 2023
In 2020, the G20 proposed a solution for the debt-related issues affecting the world's poorest countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, their initiatives have failed to meet their objectives. The author argues that the reason for this failure is the inability to bring sovereign countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458226
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Mapping finance sources for nature-based solutions in Africa
Pettinotti, Laetitia; Quevedo, Adriana - 2023
, countries seeking to identify finance for nature-based solutions must navigate complex fragmented terms and language, as well as … a wide array of public and private finance actors. Such fragmentation has practical implications. African countries face …. Adding to the complexity, finance for nature-based solutions often combines public and private financing. So far, blended …
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The volatility of realized volatility
Corsi, Fulvio; Kretschmer, Uta; Mittnik, Stefan; … - 2005
-volatility models, have traditionally been dominating the empirical finance literature. In recent years, with the availability of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298315
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Finance and welfare states in globalizing markets
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2007
It is theoretically clear and may be verified empirically that efficient financial markets can make it less necessary for policy to try and offset the welfare effects of labour income risk and unequal consumption dynamics. The literature has also pointed out that, since international competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298380
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The genesis of the Black-Scholes option pricing formula
Heimer, Thomas; Arend, Sebastian - 2008
Innovations in the finance industry are an important tool to enhance profitability and to increase a nation's wealth …. It, therefore, is not astonishing that there is much empirical work on innovations in finance. Most of the work however … enhance risk control, how do we generate new processes that may enhance the profitability of finance business? The second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298942
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The paradox of monetary profits: an obstacle to understanding financial and economic Crisis?
Bruun, Charlotte; Heyn-Johnsen, Carsten - 2009
financial spheres. The monetary profit inducing capitalist production, emanates from the sphere of finance. In a world of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299493
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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?
Bittencourt, Manoel - 2011
In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to all sorts of finance, in … and analysis, confirm the Schumpeterian prediction which suggests that finance authorises the entrepreneur to invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305619
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Understanding the high profitability of Chinese banks
Löchel, Horst; Li, Helena Xiang - 2011
The big Chinese state-owned banks came as winners out of the global financial crisis. According to the Banker ranking, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of global banking profits in 2010. The Chinese banking...
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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