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Financial development and employment : evidence from transition countries
Schäfer, Dorothea; Steiner, Susan - 2014
This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We … development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital … Enterprise Performance Survey covering transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use firm size as a proxy for …
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Financial Development and Employment : Evidence from Transition Countries
Schaefer, Dorothea - 2014
This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We … development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital … Enterprise Performance Survey covering transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use firm size as a proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052318
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Remedial role of financial development in corporate investment amid financing constraints and agency costs
Khan, Muhammad Kaleem; He, Ying; Kaleem, Ahmad; Akram, Umair - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 1, pp. 176-191
The study investigates the role of financial development in boosting the investment efficiency of firms' investments in China. Using a large sample of firm-level financial data and country level economic data over the period 2004-2015, present study creates a link between financial and real...
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Dependence on external finance: an inherent industry characteristic?
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; von Furstenberg, George M. - 2006
Rajan and Zingales (1998) use U.S. Compustat firm data for the 1980s to obtain measures of manufacturing sectors? Dependence on External Finance (DEF). They take any differences in these measures to be structural/technological and thus applicable to other countries. Their joint assumptions about...
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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318765
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Financial inclusion in Asia : an overview
Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten - 2015
This paper provides an analysis of financial development and inclusion in developing Asia using data from a wide array of sources. We show that in terms of aggregate measures of financial development, the region as a whole has superior banking sector depth compared to other developing regions;...
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Diversity across EU banking sectors : poorly researched and underappreciated
Kotz, Hans-Helmut; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2018) 4, pp. 141-151
Interest in the role of diversity in banking sectors has increased substantially since the financial crisis (and the subsequent sovereign debt crises) have hit European countries differentially. The purpose of this note is to hint at crucial research gaps in terms of appreciating consequences of...
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Export Credit Guarantees and Export Performance: An Empirical Analysis for Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Yalcin, Erdal - 2011
Recent literature finds that exporters are particularly vulnerable to financial market frictions.As a consequence, exports may be lower than their efficient levels. For this reason,many countries support exporters by underwriting export credit guarantees. The empiricalevidence on the effects of...
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Financing Asia's growth
Estrada, Gemma B.; Noland, Marcus; Park, Donghyun; … - 2015
Recent key challenges highlight the need to revisit Asia's financial development. These include the region's growth slowdown since the global crisis, compounded by a less benign external environment; internal structural challenges, such as population aging; and the maturing of much of the region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305285
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Digital financial inclusion, economic freedom, financial development, and growth : implications from a panel data analysis
Rekha, G.; Rajamani, K.; Resmi, G. - 2021
An all-inclusive financial system is one of the channels through which information and communication technology (ICT) affects economic growth. Digital financial inclusion is an evolving phenomenon that enhances the ease of access to and availability of formal financial services. Further,...
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