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Innovating Development Finance - From Financing Sources to Financial Solutions

Girishankar, Navin - 2016

As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for innovative or alternative sources of Official Development Assistance to help finance achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. For their part, developing countries have sought not only more financial flows but...

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When Credit Bites Back : Leverage, Business Cycles and Crises

Jorda, Oscar - 2015

This paper studies the role of credit in the business cycle, with a focus on private credit overhang. Based on a study of the universe of over 200 recession episodes in 14 advanced countries between 1870 and 2008, we document two key facts of the modern business cycle: financial-crisis...

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'High and Dry' : the Liquidity and Credit of Colonial and Foreign Government Debt in the London Stock Exchange (1880-1910)

Flandreau, Marc - 2015

We gather the most comprehensive database of government bonds for the first globalisation era to date to conduct the first historically informed study of the importance of liquidity for colonial and sovereign yield spreads. Considering both liquidity and credit shows that the two markets were...

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Terrorist Financing through Money Laundering – A Threat to National Security

Singh, Vijay Kumar - 2017

terrorist financing hit the board with the World Trade Center attack in America and thereafter a lot of research has been done … in this area under the head “Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT)”. Often Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and CFT is … their possible use in financing of terrorism. Paper aims at opening up issues to ponder upon in national interest about …

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Green Financing

Mua, Kelly - 2017

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From Start-Up to Scale-Up : Examining Public Policies for the Financing of High-Growth Ventures

Duruflé, Gilles - 2017

successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the US, Europe and … Canada. The paper first provides a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. It then … shows some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the US, Europe and Canada. Finally the paper raises the …

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Pledgeability, Industry Liquidity, and Financing Cycles

Diamond, Douglas W. - 2017

of financing cycles where the importance of creditors' control rights over cash flows (“pledgeability”) varies with …

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Khan, B. Zorina - 2017

Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...

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Do Debt Contract Enforcement Costs Affect Financing and Asset Structure?

Gopalan, Radhakrishnan - 2015

reduction in debt contract enforcement costs on financing and asset maturity. A reduction in enforcement costs is associated … the reform. Our results highlight an important causal effect of debt contract enforcement costs on firm financing and …

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Housing Purchases and the Dynamics of Housing Wealth

Bover, Olympia - 2015

I model the purchase behavior of main and secondary housing by Spanish households using the panel sample from the first two waves of the Spanish household finance survey (EFF). I estimate discrete hazard models using retrospective and within-period purchase sequences. I also estimate an (S,s)...

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