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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"bank loans"”.
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Non-performing bank loans and banking crisis in the Pakistani banking system
This thesis investigates the Pakistani banking crisis, which was the result of non-performing bank loans over the period 1996-98. The thesis uses primary data collected for this research through questionnaires from the credit managers who approved these non-performing bank loans. The …
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The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
… our measures of trust correlate with accessing bank loans. Farmers who place more trust in community farmers score lower on our pesticide knowledge exam and they are less likely to adopt our pesticide safety equipment technology. We find that farmers who exhibit a preference for trusting …
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Financial Development and Growth in India
<p>In this paper I look to analyze whether bank loans have the ability to promote productivity for firms and also whether banks are more effective relative to other sources of lending such as the government. Using a panel dataset of 26,000 firms over the time period 1997-2014 I carry out multiple …
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Corporate financing and the uniqueness of loan contracts: The Brazilian case in the 1980's
The debate about the uniqueness of bank loans has been around for sometime and in spite of that, no conclusive agreement has been drawn from empirical studies.
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Three Essays On The Bank Lending Channel
… on commodity demand via relative prices. The bank lending channel (BLC) proposes an additional effect via the quantity of loans. This has found its way into economic textbooks, although it remains empirically controversial. I present various theoretical criticisms of the BLC and its building …
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Investigating the nexus between investment in agriculture and agriculture output: a case for Namibia
… showed that public investment, development bank loans and agriculture export have a positive impact on agricultural output while inflation, lending rates and commercial bank loans have a deleterious effect. The long-run causality tests suggest that there is unidirectional causality between …
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OUTSIDERS IN FAMILY FIRMS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM FINANCING DECISION
… a higher proportion of outsiders take on fewer bank loans but issue more bonds. I use the proportion of outsiders in the firm's senior management team to measure the presence of outsiders in family firms. Besides, for the robustness test, I also use two dummy variables to measure the presence of …
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Saving for capital formation in underdeveloped countries
… from deficit financing of investment by means of bank loans or fiat money will be examined, analyzed, and discussed with the aim of finding useful measures for increasing savings from them to promote capital formation.; (2) The ideas of various writers on economic development that are directly …
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Aspects of tenders for construction contracts
… etc.; c) financial expense including interest on bank loans or the cost of issuing bonds; d) cost of construction itself; e) cost of employing consulting eng1neers to design and supervise the project; f) loss of interest that could be earned by capital tied up during the construction period; g) …
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The impact of Basel II reforms : a contraction in SME lending
… the international financial system from major bank collapses through the enforcement of minimum capital adequacy ratios. This new set of rules has raised concerns of triggering changes in institutions' business models leading to credit contraction, which in turn could potentially contribute to …
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Bank Certification Effect on CEO Compensation
… of outside financing, the announcement of a bank loan agreement prompts a positive and significant market return. Throughout the literature, bank loans are deemed special and unique due to multiple benefits accruing to bank borrowers. The short-term positive market reaction is however …
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Market response to corporate loan announcements in New Zealand
The benefits of bank financing from screening and monitoring process have been well documented in studies examining the information content of corporate loan announcements. While most of the previous literature is conducted extensively in the US, this thesis proposes to examine the market reaction …
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Essays on banking and corporate finance in developing countries
… consists of three essays that examine banking and corporate finance in developing countries. Specifically, it explores the theoretical and empirical implications of open capital markets, foreign bank entry, and the role of bond markets during banking crises. Chapter 1 analyzes the …
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Essays in economics
… the effects on firms' budget constraints and on bank loan allocation of introducing a strict bankruptcy law in a transition economy. A stylized model of soft budget constraints suggests that bank loans tend to remain available for financially weaker firms due to the bank's financial commitment …
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Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Labor
… debt contracts and thus the credibility of bankruptcy threats. Debt structure is shown to be adjusted as a response to an increase in non-financial stakeholders' negotiation power. Using NLRB labor union election as a laboratory setting and employing a regression discontinuity design, we …
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Įmonių obligacijų rinkos plėtros veiksnių vertinimas /
… institutions. Tighter standards for business loans forces to look for alternatives (to the knowledge of EC in 2013, there were rejected around 35 percent of SME credit applications in the euro area). One of them is corporate bonds. The favor of this instrument in the market has grown after the …
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The evaluation of the factors influencing corporate bond market development. Summary of doctoral dissertation /
… institutions. Tighter standards for business loans forces to look for alternatives (to the knowledge of EC in 2013, there were rejected around 35 percent of SME credit applications in the euro area). One of them is corporate bonds. The favor of this instrument in the market has grown after the …
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Winners and Losers: Between Bank Loan and Small Medium Enterprises Equity Investment Scheme (SMEEIS) as Funding Sources for Northern Nigerian SMEs
… access to formal credit from the conventional Banks in Nigeria, and, furthermore, venturing into the potentially untapped revenue base of the sub-sector, which promises opportunities for the conventional banks. This study assesses the comparative financial and non-financial performance between …
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Essays on the taxation and regulation of financial markets
… particular on financial intermediaries such as banks and mutual funds. The first chapter uses the unprecedented changes in the degree of competition in local banking markets that occurred between 1980 and 1994 to estimate the impact of market competition on the risk profile of commercial bank …
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