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Economic governance of MFIs: Inside the black box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … institutions such as country-level business registry departments in facilitating targeting of poor clients is illuminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274571
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Economic governance of MFIs : inside the black box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … institutions such as country-level business registry departments in facilitating targeting of poor clients is illuminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007018
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Measures of Complexity of Global Banks
Cetorelli, Nicola - 2014
Size and complexity are viewed as contributing to the too-big-to-fail status of financial institutions. Yet, there is … institutions. We show that standard measures of institution size are strongly related to total counts of affiliates in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055804
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A New Kind of CEO for the Global Information Age
Friedman, Hershey H.; Lewis, Barbara - 2014
Organizations that succeed in the Information Age/Age of Internet and Globalization will have to be innovative and adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Approaches that worked in the past no longer work when competition can come from anywhere in the world and any industry. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036808
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Philippe Aghion : Recipient of the 2016 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2017
Professor Philippe Aghion is the 2016 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, consisting of 100,000 Euros and a statuette designed by the internationally renowned Swedish sculptor Carl Milles. He is one of the most influential researchers worldwide in economics in the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953364
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Social Inclusion and Financial Inclusion : International Evidence
Ozili, Peterson K - 2020
This paper investigates the association between social inclusion and financial inclusion. Social inclusion and financial inclusion are two major development policy agenda in many countries, and the association between them has received little attention in the policy and academic literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842759
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Do Remittances Enhance Financial Inclusion in LMICs and in Fragile States?
Ben Naceur, Sami - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these flows act as a substitute to formal financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830840
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What drives international bank flows? Politics, institutions and other determinants
Papaioannou, Elias - 2005
This paper uses a large panel of bilateral bank flow data to assess how institutions and politics affect international …), well-functioning institutions are a key driving force for international bank flows. Specifically, foreign banks invest … banking system. 3) Beyond institutions, politics exert also a firstorder impact. 4) The European Integration process has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604483
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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective
Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231400
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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective
Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212303