L'adaptation recente de la reglementation prudentielle des banques, aux risques de marche notamment, a conduit les autorites a reconnaitre le controle interne et a menager une place plus importante a la communication d'informations. En cela, les autorites reglementaires se sont rapprochees des...

It is widely recognized that trade credit is an important financial mechanism, particularly in developing economies and transition economies where institutions are weak. This paper documents theoretical analysis and empirical accounts on what facilitates an effective supply of trade credit based...

This paper will document financial aspects of transactions, and trade credit supply behavior with FDI among small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) based on two original surveys, conducted in four cities in China in 2003. The survey was designed to capture the nature of inter-firm transactions,...

The role of pawnshops in the public economic life is revealed. Its economic nature, practical orientation and financial profitability have been analysed. Two basic trends in the development of the pawnbrokerage have been studied - impact and dependence caused by the general economic development....

There was drawn up a presentation of the Romanian agriculture and financing sources used in the transition period underlying the budgetary and external financing. The paper emphasizes the low level of absorption of external funds starting from the allotted amounts of money and compares them to...

On the basis of a panel data effects of different features of the DIS on banking crises are empirically tested. The econometric model is a multivariate logit model. The result suggest that the presence of an explicit DIS in a country has positive association with the likelihood of banking crises.

L'instabilite bancaire et financiere des annees recentes a fait naitre un debat quant a l'opportunite d'une reforme de la reglementation prudentielle. Cet article vise a contribuer a ce debat en proposant un nouveau schema de reglementation prudentielle qui presente trois caracteristiques...

In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit ASsociations. We provide empirical findings which indicate that individuals use their participation in a rosca as a...

The academic world showed a big interest for the study of the companies in financial distress in the last years, due to the implications of the bankruptcy process on the Romanian economy. In this paper, we carried out a study of the main specific features of the bankruptcy in Romania in the...

This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the potential environmental consequences of weather index based insurance, a tool for mitigating weather risk that is gaining momentum in developing countries. We model potential effects of index insurance for pastoralists on animal stocking...