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Developing an Index of Financial Inclusion: An Average Ratio Approach

Okpara, Godwin Chigozie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As financial inclusion gains popularity in developed and developing economies, there is a need for a single index, (simple in computation with little or no assumptions) that pools together the financial inclusion indicators adopted by the IMF financial access survey. The various variants of...

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of Ukrainian banks using the DEA method

Kryklii, Olena; Pavlenko, Ludmila; Podvihin, Sergei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The purpose of this study is to determine the scale, technical and overall efficiency of the banking system of Ukraine ….7 billion UAH (72 % of banking system assets). Banks were classified into state-owned banks and banks in which the state has a …

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Islamic Finance within Trading Framework: The Way to Legitimate Profit

Aziz, Abdul; Faizal, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Religious Affairs. Acknowledging this fact from the beginning, Malaysia has taken tremendous effort in establishing banking … system based on the teachings of Islam but there are still issues raised about the Islamic banking particularly on the lack … of innovation in Islamic financing products, operating within the conventional banking framework, compliance issues, and …

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Enhancement of social capital through participation in micro-finance: an empirical investigation

Kundu, AMIT - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Generation of social capital among the poor village women through micro-finance participation emerges an important aspect of rural development programme. This paper presents a method of calculating Social Capital Index and on the basis of two periods longitudinal primary data establishes the...

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On the Sustainability of Product Market Collusion under Credit Market Imperfection

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Yang, Lei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We study the implication of credit constraints for the sustainability of product market collusion in a bank financed Cournot duopoly when firms face an imperfect credit market. We consider two situations without or with credit rationing. When there is no credit rationing moderately higher cost...

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VYUŽITIE AKREDITÍVOV PRI FINANCOVANÍ MEDZINÁRODNÉHO OBCHODU

Jančíková, Eva - In: Medzinarodne vztahy (Journal of International Relations) 11 (2013) 2, pp. 116-134

Vo financovaní medzinárodného obchodu má nezastupiteľné miesto dokumentárny akreditív, ktorý je v svojej podstate už nástrojom financovania, ale okrem toho je súčasťou aj sofistikovanejších foriem financovania, akými sú forfaiting, exportné financovanie a komoditné...

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Does the underground economy hold back;financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market<br>[L'economia sommersa Š un freno per lo sviluppo finanziario? Evidenze dai mer...

GOBBI, Giorgio; ZIZZA, Roberta - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXI (2012) 1, pp. 1-29

The paper investigates the relationship between underground activities and financial deepening. We find a strong negative impact of the share of irregular employment on outstanding credit to the private sector. A shift of 1 per cent of employees from regular activities to irregular ones...

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Banking recovery could be vulnerable to interest rate increases

Robinson, Kenneth James - In: Southwest Economy (2014) Q2, pp. 10-13

The earnings on assets—generally loans—may not respond as rapidly as the cost of funds—deposits—leading to declining profits.

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Consumer use of fraud alerts and credit freezes: an empirical analysis

Cheney, Julia S.; Hunt, Robert M.; Mikhed, Vyacheslav; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

Fraud alerts — initial fraud alerts, extended fraud alerts, and credit freezes — help protect consumers from the consequences of identity theft. At the same time, they may impose costs on lenders, credit bureaus, and, in some instances, consumers. We analyze a unique data set of anonymized...

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Weakly capitalized banks slowed lending recovery after recession

Koch, Christoffer; Cooke, J.B. - In: Economic Letter 9 (2014)

The reluctance to lend played out particularly among a subset of banks—often larger institutions with very low ratios of capital to assets.

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