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How do Small Firms Respond to Tax Schedule Discontinuities? Evidence from South African Tax Registers

Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; … - 2018

We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizeable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where the corporate tax rate increases, implying active...

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Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Besancenot, Damien; Vranceanu, Radu - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 1

In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon, which builds on the traditional signaling approach. The model brings into the picture specific...

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Ländliche Regional- und Destinationsentwicklungen als Diversifikationsstrategie – am Beispiel ausgewählter Emerging Economies in Asien und Lateinamerika

Schuhbert, Arne - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 10 (2018) 2, pp. 233-265

Zusammenfassung Eine von vielen Kontroversen in der Debatte um eine nachhaltige, ländliche Regionalentwicklung durch Tourismus entzündet sich an der Frage, inwiefern eine gezielte Entwicklung des Tourismussektors, im Rahmen der derzeit in vielen Emerging Economies verfolgten...

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Role and dynamics of 'Late-comers' in the global technology competition

Tran, Chung Anh - 2011

Faster developing cycles and economic developments created many emerging economies in the 20th century. For sustainable economic growth, however, the construction and constant preservation of a profound knowledge base and technological pool is crucial. Brazil, China, India and Russia,...

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A socially responsible model of micro-credit delivery to support sustainable community development in emerging economies

Dalglish, Carol L.; Tonelli, Marcello - 2011

Micro-finance, which includes micro-credit as one of its core services, has become an important component of a range of business models – from those that operate on a strictly economic basis to those that come from a philanthropic base, through Non Government Organisations (NGOs). Its success...

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Multi-country study of bank credit risk determinants

Ahmad, Nor Hayati; Ariff, Mohamed - 2007

This paper presents fresh findings about key determinants of credit risk of commercial banks in emerging economy banking systems compared with developed economies. Australia, France, Japan and the US represent developed economies; emerging economies are India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico and...

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Do the BRICs and Emerging Markets Differ in their Agrifood Trade?

Haq, Zahoor; Meilke, Karl D. - 2009

This study develops an import demand model to explore the role of income in explaining the trade performance of low … agrifood products for the years 1990 to 2006. The results suggest that China, Russia and Brazil have more income elastic import … demand than other middle-income countries. Conversely, the income elasticities of import demand in India are similar to other …

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On the Rationale of Bank Lending in Pre-Crisis Thailand

Menkhoff, Lukas; Suwanaporn, Chodechai - 2005

Evidence from credit files is provided to examine bank lending determinants of Thai commercial banks. Their lending practice follows reasonable patterns as a standard set of variables, including indirect risk variables, explains much of the variance in interest rate spread. Reflecting...

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Financial Liberalisation in Emerging Markets: How Does Bank Lending Change?

Hübler, Olaf; Menkhoff, Lukas; Suwanaporn, Chodechai - 2007

Financial liberalisation has often failed in the past due to underestimated problems of structural change. We analyse such changes in lending behaviour of Thai commercial banks during a liberalisation phase by way of unique micro data. Liberalisation has expected positive effects, such as...

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Does human capital protect workers against exogenous shocks? South Africa in the 2008 - 2009 crisis

Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - 2009

The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...

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