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Die Dosis macht das Gift – eine Analyse zum Einfluss von Bonuszahlungen auf die Profitabilität und das Risiko von Banken
Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 68 (2015) 03, pp. 23-31
Parallel zum Privatsektor versuchen auch die Aufsichtsbehörden, die Vergütungspraktiken in Banken zu reformieren. Bemerkenswert dabei ist die Bandbreite an teils stark voneinander abweichenden Reformansätzen, was vor allem dem Mangel an empirischen Erkenntnissen zur Wirkung von Bonuszahlungen...
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Determinants of Firm Innovation - Evidence from German Panel Data
Kipar, Stefan - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
domestic entry in the form of spinoffs, and the availability of bank credit. <br>This thesis, for the most part, utilizes the …
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Does weather affect US bank loan efficiency?
Mamatzakis, E - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and bank loan inefficiency, using a panel data set that includes 69 banks operating in the US spanning the period 1994 to … weather conditions. This paper provides the theoretical framework to study the impact of weather through its influence on bank … manager’s mood on bank inefficiency. In particular, we provide empirical evidence of the dynamic interactions between weather …
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Borrowing Patterns, Bankruptcy and Voluntary Liquidation
Mata, José; Antunes, António R.; Portugal, Pedro - Banco de Portugal - 2010
We study the impact of financial variables upon bankruptcy and voluntary exit. Controlling for efficiency, which we find to decrease the odds of both bankruptcy and voluntary exit, characteristics of firms which correlate with the firms' access to funds, exert very different impacts upon the two...
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Borrowing High vs. Borrowing Higher: Sources and Consequences of Dispersion in Individual Borrowing Costs
Stango, Victor; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We document cross-individual variation in U.S. credit card borrowing costs (APRs) that is large enough to explain substantial differences in household saving rates. Borrower default risk and card characteristics explain roughly 40% of APRs. The remaining dispersion exists because a borrower can...
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Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high …
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Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high …
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Development of a Procedure for the Construction of GEI Emission Abatement Curves Incorporating the Uncertainty Associated to the Main Mitigation Variables
Clerc, Jacques; Diaz, Manuel; Campos, Bruno - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The general objective of the study is to develop a methodology for the preparation of greenhouse-gas abatement curves for the energy demand sector, incorporating the uncertainty associated to the variables involved in estimating the marginal abatement costs. Furthermore, this approach will be...
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Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru
Moron, Eduardo; Salgado, Edgar; Seminario, Cristhian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....
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Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Grimm, Michael; Paffhausen, Anna Luisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation and the creation of new firms. Because most...
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