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Are Microfinance Institutions in Developing Countries a Safe Harbour Against the Contagion of Global Recession?
Moro Visconti, Roberto - 2015
economy.Developing countries, not fully integrated with international markets, seem less affected and local microfinance … international capital is harder and more expensive.Intrinsic characteristics of microfinance, such as closeness to the borrowers …
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The exposure of microfinance institutions to financial risk
Gietzen, Thomas - In: Review of development finance 7 (2017) 2, pp. 120-133
This study examines the exposure of microfinance institutions to liquidity-, interest rate and foreign exchange (FX …) risk. Using manually collected data from microfinance institutions' financial reporting, I find that the microfinance …
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Crisis Risk and Risk Management
Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper assesses the current state of knowledge about crisis risk and its implications for risk management. Better data that became available since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has improved our understanding of crisis risk. These data have been used to show that some types of crises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287353
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Stress scenarios from the tails of historical distributions of macro-financial risk factors in Denmark
Abildgren, Kim - 2013
The paper puts the outcome during the most recent financial crisis in a historical perspective by taking a closer look at the frequency of extreme events in the economic history of Denmark, in some cases based on time series back to the late 1600s. We focus on the frequency distribution of a...
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Financial intermediaries and the macroeconomy : evidence from a high-frequency identification
Ottonello, Pablo; Song, Wenting - 2022 - Last updated: May 20, 2022
We provide empirical evidence of the causal effects of changes in financial intermediaries' net worth on the aggregate economy. Our strategy identifies financial shocks as high-frequency changes in the market value of intermediaries' net worth in a narrow window around their earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252981
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Stress scenarios from the tails of historical distributions of macro-financial risk factors in Denmark
Abildgren, Kim - 2013
The paper puts the outcome during the most recent financial crisis in a historical perspective by taking a closer look at the frequency of extreme events in the economic history of Denmark, in some cases based on time series back to the late 1600s. We focus on the frequency distribution of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464535
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The exposure of microfinance institutions to financial risk
Gietzen, Thomas - 2015
This study examines the exposure of microfinance institutions to liquidity, interest rate and foreign exchange (FX … the largest microfinance institutions worldwide. The data suggests that microfinance institutions in the sample, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344326
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From boom to bust : how different has microfinance been from traditional banking?
Wagner, Charlotte - 2010
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman … developing countries. The findings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditional … capital. This raises the question whether the crisis resilience the microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a …
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Microfinance to Combat Global Recession and Social Exclusion : An Empirical Investigation
Das, Ramesh Chandra (ed.) - 2022
Performance -- Chapter 13: Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Inclusion – A Study with Reference to India -- Chapter 14 …: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty in India -- Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among …Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287746
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Financial Shocks or Productivity Slowdown : Contrasting the Great Recession and Recovery in the United States and United Kingdom
Larkin, Kieran - 2023
This article contrasts the experiences of the United States and United Kingdom during and after the Great Recession to understand the role of financial shocks in the magnitude of the crises and length of the recoveries. It starts from the common consensus that the Great Recession first and...
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