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Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2003

Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...

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Officials on boards and the prudential behavior of banks: Evidence from China's city commercial banks

Qian, Xianhang; Zhang, Guangli; Liu, Haiming - In: China Economic Review 32 (2015) C, pp. 84-96

China's City Commercial Banks during 2006–2010. We further explore the impact of OADs' characteristics and the role of …

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DO EXTERNAL FUNDS YIELD LOWER RETURNS ? RECENT EVIDENCE FROM EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES

Pal, Sarmistha; Driffield, Nigel - EconWPA - 2003

Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...

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Is there a trade-off between financial performance and outreach in south asian Microfinance institutions?

Adhikary, Sanju; Papachristou, George - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 381-402

profitability and efficiency, and (b) depth in contrast to breadth mitigates risks. Overall, our findings do not confirm a …

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Bank efficiency in Africa

Oluitan, Roseline - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 205-221

This study examines the efficiency of the financial sector in African countries. It aims to investigate if ìThe … intermediation process and efficiency in the banking system (Vittas, 1991; Howard & Haynes, 2001). In this paper, the cost function …

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MIKROFINANČNÍ REVOLUCE: AKTUÁLNÍ KONTROVERZE A VÝZVY

Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization …

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Microfinance efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary Union: have reforms promoted sustainability or outreach?

KABLAN, Sandrine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … outreach. For this purpose, we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the … financial efficiency on the other hand. Our results show that sustainability prevails. Indeed, we observe an increase in …

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Microfinance Revolution: Controversies and Challenges

Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - In: Politická ekonomie 2015 (2015) 1, pp. 108-130

innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization …

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Can Financial Infrastructures Foster Economic Development?.

Amable, B.; Chatelain, J.-B. - Banque de France - 2001

In this paper, financial infrastructures increase the efficiency of the banking sector: they decrease the market power …

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THE COST STRUCTURE OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA

Hartarska, Valentina; Caudill, Steven B.; Gropper, Daniel M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Microfinance institutions are important, particularly in developing countries, because they expand the frontier of financial intermediation by providing loans to those traditionally excluded from formal financial markets. This paper presents the first systematic statistical examination of the...

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