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Member Bank Borrowing 1962-1969
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Probability Models for Targeted Borrowing of Information
<p>This dissertation is devoted to building Bayesian models for complex data, which are geared toward specific inferential aspects of applied problems. This broad topic is explored via three methodological case-studies, unified by the use of latent variables to build structured yet flexible models. …
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Essays on credit rationing and borrowing constraints
The problem of credit rationing/borrowing constraint has recently received considerable attention. Individuals who are denied any credit by a financial institution, or who find it difficult to borrow against future incomes, are said to be credit rationed or borrowing constrained in the credit …
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Analysis of Texas College Students' Loan Borrowing Patterns
… to examine Texas college students' loan borrowing patterns. Through the use of a questionnaire, a survey was conducted among individuals who financed all or part of their college education through the use of the State Sponsored Student Loan Program. The results of the study showed that …
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
… papers examine a different aspect of household borrowing and the way it can influence macro-dynamics. The first paper situates the 2008 financial crisis within the growing body of literature, referred to as the New History of Capitalism. The 2008 financial crisis resulted from many years of the …
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Short-Run Borrowing Behavior of Large Commercial Banks
… profit motives as determinants of short-run bank borrowing behavior.
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Bayesian Dynamic Data Borrowing Methodologies for Source-Specific Inference
… have been introduced as such a dynamic data borrowing approach, determining the amount of information to borrow based on the exchangeability between the primary and supplemental sources, where exchangeability is defined as the equality of a target parameter. Motivated by MEM, this thesis …
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Tax-Based Collateral Limitations, Borrowing Arrangements and Firm Value
… associated with reduced debt capacity and higher borrowing costs. Additionally, I show that collateral limitations are associated with a decrease in the use of capital covenants and an increase in the use of performance covenants in private debt agreements. While the U.S. House and Senate passed …
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Determinants of sovereign borrowing choices in Sub-Saharan Africa
… on the qualitative determinants of sovereign borrowing. In addition to existing empirical literature, there is a complimentary need to examine further the quantitative determinants of external debt. The researcher seeks to establish the extent to which the cost of borrowing (proxied by …
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Japan's financial fabric : trends in keiretsu shareholding and borrowing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Transfer learning by borrowing examples for multiclass object detection
… augmenting the training data for each class by borrowing and transforming examples from other classes. Our model learns which training instances from other classes to borrow and how to transform the borrowed examples so that they become more similar to instances from the target class. Our …
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Urban infrastructure : the role of long-term municipal borrowing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Extremely Online: Cultural Borrowing, Mixing, and Transformation in Internet Music
… and phonk. It interrogates issues of cultural borrowing and hybridity within these Internet music scenes, and how representations of racial, gender, sexual, and national identity are negotiated by both producers and fans. It also explores how the dynamics of the online platforms through which …
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Adaptive Predictive Handoff Scheme with Channel Borrowing in Cellular Network
Previously, we presented an extension of predictive channel reservation (PCR) scheme, called HPCR_CB, for handoff motivated by the rapid evolving technology of mobile positioning. In this thesis, the author proposes a new scheme, called adaptive PCR_CB (APCR_CB), which is an extension of HPCR_CB by …
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Foreign Borrowing and Economic Growth in Zambia: An Econometric Analysis
… recent past, Zambia has increased its external borrowings significantly after reaching the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) completion point. The Zambian government has been on an ambitious borrowing spree with the intent that most of these funds would be channelled towards building and …
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Indebted societies : modern labor markets, social policy, and everyday borrowing
… the restrictive credit regime results in less borrowing even in light of social policy reforms. The findings have implications for how scholars and policymakers think about the role of financial markets and household debt in a world of changing labor markets and welfare states. It shows how …
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Effects of asymmetric information on agricultural borrowing, investment, and capital structure
This study examined optimal farm capital structure and investment under asymmetric information between the farm borrower and lender. The capital structure of the borrower may affect the terms of the loan contract or may restrict credit availability. Thus, under asymmetric information conditions, …
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LDC borrowing : growth oppurtunities, the option to repudiate and debt reschedulings
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing
… in U.S. higher education often involves textual borrowing, referred to as the integration and documentation of reading sources and carried out with summaries, quotes and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially are accused of …
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