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The Provision of Finance to Small Businesses: Does the Banking Relationship Constrain Performance

Ennew, Christine T.; Binks, Martin R. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 4 (1995) 1, pp. 57-73

unconstrained in both product and factor markets, finance has been widely identified as a potential constraint on entrepreneurial … activity due to either debt or equity gaps. However, in terms of externally supplied finance, it is arguably the availability … with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

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Finance and Democracy in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...

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Volatility trading: Hedge funds and the search for alpha (new challenges to the efficient markets hypothesis)

Marshall, Cara Marie - 2009

This thesis examines the pricing of volatility on organized U.S. options exchanges from October 31, 2005 through November 1, 2007. The research is motivated in part by the rapid growth of hedge funds that trade volatility and in part by the growing importance that the financial markets place on...

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Three essays on bank balance sheets and disruptions in the supply of intermediated credit

Kandrac, John Paul - 2011

xi, 101 p. : col. ill.

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Essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management

Zhang, Jun - 2000

This dissertation consists of four essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management. The first essay presents pricing and duration formulas for floating rate bonds and interest rate swaps with embedded options. It combines Briys et al.'s approximation with the extended Vasicek term...

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Structural incentives to overborrow and overlend: The international debt crisis in perspective

Sader, Frank - 1995

The emergence of the international debt crisis in the 1980s is typically explained through exogenous shocks to the global economic system, first generating excess liquidity and then creating conditions which render previously attractive lending operations unprofitable. Thus, the international...

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An analysis of information impacts in international currency markets

Johnson, Gordon Alan - 1993

A growing body of evidence has accumulated on the behavior of volatility for pricing data on a variety of different financial assets. Twenty-four-hour currency markets are a particularly useful vehicle for examining the relationship between information and asset volatility--in part because the...

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Financial liberalization, multinational banks and investment: Three essays on the cases of Hungary and Poland

Weller, Christian Erik - 1998

industries. I use a model that links finance and investment, and a data set of 23 observations for 25 industries. The panel … estimation results suggest that internal and external finance are significant in determining investment, and that industries … prefer internal over external finance. …

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Essays in banking

Sundaresan, Natarajan - 1996

This dissertation (consisting of two essays) analyzes the impact of policy measures used to control the risk-taking behavior of banks. Specifically, the first essay explores the impact of increasing the required minimum capital to asset ratios on the riskiness of banks' assets. The second essay...

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Financial liberalization in Mexico, 1989-1993

Danby, Colin - 1997

Mexico liberalized its banking system in 1989 and 1990 and privatized it from mid-1991 to mid-1992. This study first sets those institutional changes in the context of past Mexican financial development, examining the role of the financial sector in achieving macro balance and demonstrating the...

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