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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...

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Essays On Entrepreneurial Financing

Jia, Ye - 2011

the first chapter, by quantitatively evaluating the impact of different personal bankruptcy regimes on entrepreneurship in … a life-cycle model with occupational choices, I conclude that personal bankruptcy law affect entrepreneurship mainly …-bankruptcy punishments have the largest impact on entrepreneurship compared to variations in other dimensions of the bankruptcy regime. In …

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Organizational Financial Performance: Identifying and Testing Multiple Dimensions

Carton, Robert B.; Hofer, Charles W. - 2010

This research addresses the measurement of organizational financial performance. Its primary purpose is to provide researchers and managers a better understanding of the implications of selecting the dependent variables that should be used in empirical studies and management practice where...

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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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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

banking houses. Invariably, the leaders derived additional benefits from the lending operations which did not accrue to the … profitability of these loans. A formal model based on informational asymmetries resulting from the segmentation of the banking …

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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 … and financial liberalization. Next it examines the behavior of the banking sector and of the larger individual banks … financial liberalization theory is shown to make institutional assumptions about the real economy, and particularly about the …

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