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Quality of information disclosure, property rights, and bank loans : A bank heterogeneity perspective
Chen, Xichan; Li, Wanli; Hu, Shiyang; Liu, Xing - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 12 (2019) 1, pp. 63-92
Using the context of the financial reform and the development of the non-state sector in China in the past decade, we examine the roles that the quality of information disclosure and property rights play in the allocation of different types of bank credit. We find that foreign banks and policy...
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The Impact of Legislationon Credit Risk; Comparative Evidence From the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Schmieder, Philipp; Schmieder, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This study investigates the link between bankruptcy and security legislation and potential credit losses faced by banks based on a cross-country study for the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. Focusing on corporate credit, we find that legislation produces the highest...
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Can short selling improve the quality of information disclosure in clarification announcements by firms faced with market rumors?
Zhou, Hui - In: Emerging markets, finance and trade : EMFT 59 (2023) 8, pp. 2548-2576
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Evaluating the product portfolio of Japanese public service broadcaster: Consumer vs. citizen's view
Tsuji, Masatsugu; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
's channel×genre matrix management is oriented to the way as pay-TV or to public service value, PSM (Propensity Score Matching …) is employed. Using PSM, the sample population is divided into two groups, the consumer's view and the citizen's view, and …
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Propensity Score Matching: A Note of Caution for Evaluators of Social Programs
Peikes, Deborah N; Moreno, Lorenzo; Orzol, Sean Michael - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
effectively for experimental ones. Recently, the spotlight has focused on one method, propensity score matching (PSM), as the … suggested approach for evaluating employment and education programs. We present a case study of our experience using PSM, under … ideal conditions and the passing of statistical tests suggesting that the matching procedure had worked, we find that PSM …
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Complexity management in practice: A Viable System Model intervention in an Irish eco-community
Espinosa, Angela; Walker, J. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 225 (2013) 1, pp. 118-129
While soft OR tools offer specific solutions to manage complexity in organisations, little is known concerning soft OR tools to deal with self-organisation in communities. This paper describes an action research project where the authors facilitated a process of self-organisation in a developing...
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Problem structuring in participatory forest planning
Khadka, Chiranjeewee; Hujala, Teppo; Wolfslehner, Bernhard - In: Forest Policy and Economics 26 (2013) C, pp. 1-11
Decision-making for multi-purpose forestry requires well-aligned public participation and stakeholder interaction. The operational research community has developed both the theory and practice of problem-structuring methods (PSMs) to help stakeholders determine a solvable joint problem...
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The Fundaments of Applying the Concept of Public Service Motivation in the South-Eastern European States
Matei, Lucica; Fataciune (Badalan), Nicoleta - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2011
Public Service Motivation (PSM) is a relatively recent concept, defined for the first time in the 1990s in the United … encountered only in public institutions. These values, which represent the basis for the construction of PSM are not … region, the state or the organizational environment. European studies regarding PSM have mainly focused on Western Europe …
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Understanding Motivations of Sector Switchers
Apfel, Jefffey - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 3, pp. 291-304
The motivation of “sector switchers”—individuals who move from one employment sector to another over the course of their careers—is under-researched. This exploratory study is a qualitative study of sector switchers. It uses interviews wit1h 50 such individuals to add depth to an...
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MORAL HAZARD AND ADVERSE SELECTION IN HEALTH INSURANCES, EVIDENCE FROM A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY
NGUYEN, MINH THI - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 02, pp. 1450011-1
This paper uses special features of Vietnam's health insurance system to separately estimate the effects of moral hazard and adverse selection. Traditionally, the estimation of those effects is ad hoc due to the endogeneity of insurance status. Due to a special fact in Vietnam that there exist a...
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