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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Business Administration, Banking"”.
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The free banking experience in Illinois.
The free banking experience in Illinois.
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A plea for the nationalization of banks
Abstract not available.
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Essays on Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation
In the last essay, I study how liquidation values can affect the determination of debt maturity. I document the first empirical evidence supporting the claim that higher liquidation value can indeed decrease debt maturity. I document that maturity for cash lending, which provides cash usable at the …
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Three Essays on Firms' Decisions to Issue Securities
In the third chapter, the choice of marketplaces in which firms issue securities is studied. Since capital markets are not seamlessly integrated, firms may be able to issue securities into foreign markets to take advantage of a market with a segmented information set or to act opportunistically …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance and Banking
Chapter III examines how a firm's financial decisions are influenced by both its corporate tax status as well as the personal tax status of its particular investors. Using the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as exogenous shock to firms' tax status, I model how a firm with a specific investor tax clientele …
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"""Little Manhattan"" in the Shadow of Global Prescriptions: The Spatial and Social Restructuring of the Banking Sector in Istanbul in the Era of Financial Liberalization"
"""Little Manhattan,"" the new international business and finance center of Istanbul, is the place where the dominant urbanization agenda, making Istanbul a world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant development projects …
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Central Bank Independence and Policy Performance: Central -East Europe, 1919--1939
My results indicate that the domestic political institutions and the historical legacy from the pre-war years were more important than statutory central bank independence for determining policy outcomes.
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Essays on Banking and Option Pricing
This thesis contains three papers. The first paper examines how the level of legal protection to creditors may affect the degree of credit market development, measured by the cost, the level, and the variability of credit in the market. The model predicts that high legal protection tends to …
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Banking in Transition Countries
Finally, I examine the interaction between borrowing costs and firms' decisions to secure loans. I demonstrate that decisions of firms in transition economies to secure loans are consistent with the decisions of firms in more advanced economies and that presence of collateral is associated with …
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Loans Versus Bonds as Emerging Market Credit
"Lastly, a literature has developed on whether the new portfolio flows are ""hot money"", in that they may exhibit high volatility relative to other forms of capital such as direct investment. Some authors question whether portfolio flows are hot money. None look at more specific categories, …
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Empirical Analysis of Farm Credit Risk Under the Structure Model
Finally, the results illustrate that the methods used in the study can be also applied to agricultural lending using available farm records, which provides a solution to the two major issues in risk assessment for agricultural lending, i.e. lack of long-time loss data and limited information of …
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The Effects of Environmental Hazards and Asymmetric Information on Agricultural Mortage
This research examines the environmental hazard problem in a purely qualitative manner. Future quantitative work remains.
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A Firm-Level Model for Commercial Banks Servicing Agriculture: A Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach
The model results depend upon the model specification as well as the linkage between the bank and its external environments. In general, the differences between the balance sheet decisions made by the bank under the alternative scenarios are not large. Major findings of this study are (1) …
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Lender Response to Credit Risk: The Case of Bank Perkreditan Rakyat in East Java, Indonesia
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 84321 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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An Empirical Analysis of Differential Price Movements in Gnma Pass-Through Security and Government Bond Markets
The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) pass-through security is a secondary mortgage market instrument whose Federally-guaranteed cash flows mirror the payments on an underlying pool of government-insured mortgages. Previous studies have attempted to model the pricing of, or determine …
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The Capital Structure Decision in The Banking Firm (Financial Institutions, Decision-Making)
… investigate the question of capital structure in banking firms, also called the capital adequacy problem. The problem is studied as a rational long-term financial decision formulated by maximizing banking firms subject to regulatory constraints on capital structure and asset portfolio selection, …
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The Risk-Adjusted Profit Function Measurement of Economies of Scale and Efficiency in Commercial Banking
… not economies of scale exist in the commercial banking industry has been a subject of investigation in a number of cost function studies. The major problem with this approach appears to be the disagreement over which variable(s) would adequately represent bank 'output'. Previous results, …
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The Market Effect of Diversification Mergers by Bank Holding Companies
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:17:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606843.pdf: 3239825 bytes, checksum: e559a9f5e9bb77e9d2208213e33cd82b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Measurement of Banking Risk and Capital Adequacy: A Linear Structural Relations Approach
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:17:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804154.pdf: 3008751 bytes, checksum: d1e3e959d34fd8eb2f51424428a51249 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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