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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Debt Finance"”.
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Uncertainty in Debt Finance: Reconceptualising Material Adverse Change Clauses
… valuable and complex deals, such as corporate debt financing or mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) deals, include special contractual risk allocation provisions, called Material Adverse Change/Effect (“MAC”) clauses. Despite increasing popularity, vague drafting and the lack of case law have made …
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The relationship between access to debt finance and viability of small & medium enterprises in Zimbabwe
… the relationship between the level of access to debt finance and viability among 41 randomly selected SMEs operating in the agricultural sector in Zimbabwe for the period 2011 and 2014 using descriptive statistical analysis and panel data regression analysis. The study found that viability is …
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Access to debt finance and its determinants in Uganda: an empirical investigation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
… was to investigate the extent of access to debt finance and its determinants among SMEs in Uganda using the “Applied and Received” approach (ARa). In addition, supplementary to the main research objective, the thesis had two subsidiary objectives; firstly, to examine the effect of measuring …
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Examining the factors impacting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in accessing development debt finance in the kingdom of Eswatini
… they face several constraints to accessing finances for their growth and development. Hence, by using a secondary dataset from the Central Bank of Eswatini that comprises 1,390 loan applicants, an empirical analysis was done using a binary logistic regression analysis to assess credit …
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The development of a municipal bond market in Brazil : a comparative case study of the Deodoro F1 race track : Rio de Janeiro & COTA, Austin, TX
Considering the long history of privately financed capital projects in Latin America, this research paper examines the theory that the US municipal finance structure may serve as a prudent legal, regulatory model for emerging markets in Latin America. As such, the development of a sub-national debt …
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Overcoming financial exclusion: Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) and the balancing of financial and social objectives
This thesis explores Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFI) as an alternative vehicle for the supply of debt finance to financially excluded enterprises. CDFIs are part of a broader approach to addressing financial exclusion that is experienced by commercial and social enterprises in the …
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An examination of debt financing of growth oriented SMEs in Nigeria
… Specifically, the research examines the external debt financing needs and debt financing gaps experienced by growth oriented SMEs, the role of finance in SMEs growth and the factors that affect SME financing. In so doing, the study focuses on the supply and demand side perspectives of SME …
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An empirical study of the impact of macroeconomic variables on the capital structure of South African firms during periods of heightened economic uncertainty
… this empirical research, the impact of national debt to GDP (and other selected macroeconomic variables) on the capital structure of South African firms is investigated during a period of heightened economic uncertainty. Economic uncertainty, as defined in this study, refers to the degree of …
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A Thematic Analysis of Anticompetitive Behaviour in the Credit Rating Process of Structured Finance
… by agents in the credit rating process for debt finance. The aim is to determine what influences, if any, the interactions and relationships in the rating process have on the sustenance of the oligopoly in the rating industry and on impeding new rating agencies trying to enter the market. …
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Do share pledges by insiders influence firm performance and value?
… and add value to firms with limited access to debt finance or high growth opportunities. The third and last chapter documents that share pledges by insiders create moral hazards by motivating them to alter the risk-taking ability of firms and encouraging them to avoid reporting small losses. …
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Entrepreneurial financing decisions, venture capital ownership and bargaining power
… oriented companies rarely have the capital to finance their innovative ideas themselves and therefore also have to accept the risks associated with assessing and acquiring the necessary finance resources from other investors. The goal of this dissertation is to study the impact of venture …
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Essays on the financial sector and macroeconomic policy
… policy reacts to changes in the cost of public debt finance. The four chapters share an overarching motivation, namely having all been motivated by the events of the current financial crisis - first in its guise as a banking crisis and then in its guise as a sovereign debt crisis. All four …
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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
… this dissertation details ethnographically the debt upon which the Gospel of Prosperity rests. The ethnographic research, collected over two and a half years of sustained fieldwork, assesses Colombiaâ s largest mega-church, a Protestant micro-credit program in BogotĂĄ, various commercial banks, …