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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"capital constraints"”.
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The Impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance on Capital Constraints and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from European Countries
… if a company's ESG performance can reduce capital constraints. (2) To investigate whether there is a non-linear effect of ESG performance on the cost of capital. (3) To explore how better ESG performance can mitigate capital constraints and the cost of capital during the 2007/2008 financial …
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Oligopolistic market-making and inventory heterogeneity
… agents and observed liquidity provision. Tight capital constraints can generate "resting" behavior for a market maker. Under relaxed capital constraints, the width of the bid-ask spread positively correlates with inventory imbalances. A grim-trigger non-Markov equilibrium is analyzed. …
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Private property, capital and the state in the development of white commercial farming in South Africa, 1910-1986
… for small farmers in countries beset by capital deficits. It explores how undercapitalisation inhibited capitalist development of white commercial agriculture in South Africa between 1910 and 1936. From 1937, South Africa's nationalist government intervened in markets through marketing …
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Decision making in the HIV/AIDS supply chain
… funding, forced ordering, shrinkage, and human capital constraints. This research explores these issues and identifies five scenarios that impact performance measures. The model, developed through an integrated supply chain approach, simulates the effects of scenarios on inventory level, cycle …
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Recreation Ecology of Colorado Fourteeners: An Assessment of Trail Usage and Impacts
… groups managing the peaks operate with major capital constraints so their efforts need to be informed, prioritized, and efficient. This paper gauges the dynamics of trail usage, explanatory variables, and recreational impacts across all 58 Fourteeners, and details evaluation adjustments that …
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Institutional arrangements and land reallocation during transition : a regional analysis of small farms in Romania
… alternatives for landowners. Going beyond the capital constraints argument, I examine the role of institutional legacies and the effect of collectivization in explaining regional differences in land reallocation during transition.
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Essays in corporate finance
… relationships and its effect on liquidity constraints and business growth. In particular, it investigates the effect of monetary capital and human capital constraints and the role of banking relationships to relax both constraints. The first essay studies how the number of bank …
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Measuring the impacts of credit restrictions on the trade performance of debtor nations
… crisis is the trade impacts of the restrictive capital flows. Trade models applied to extract the debt-to-trade linkages have generally over looked the micro economic behavior that lead to the observed macroeconomic performance. Micro economic models abound that examine the theoretical concerns …
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Essays in Liquidity and Financial Markets
… of market microstructure and theories linking capital constraints with market illiquidity, this study documents that a con tractionary (expansionary) monetary policy reduces (increases) stock liquidity. Moreover, this study finds that the effect of monetary policy on stock liquidity depends on …
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Financing medicine's last mile in Uganda : exploring linkages between patient access to medicine and supply chain access to finance
… uncertainties associated with demand and working capital to inform how financing can improve on-shelf availability. For geographic accessibility, we analyze density in each district of retail pharmacies and financial lending institutions using data visualization. Our analyses reveal several key …
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THREE ESSAYS ON LENDING AND CORPORATE DEBT STRUCTURE
… access to the public debt market experience capital constraints. The third essay investigates how product market competition affects a firm’s choice between private and public debt in financing mergers and acquisitions. I find that acquirers facing intense product market competition prefer …
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Mineral Asset Valuation Codes: Towards an International Standard
… of developing such a code. The severe access to capital constraints faced by the industry in 2013, in combination with generally declining market conditions indicate a need to attract alternative forms of financing which would be better facilitated through improved reporting. The expansion of the …
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An Analysis of Trade Credit and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
… firms in each sector. Firms face working capital constraints and are required to finance their production costs using both bank and supplier credit. In response to a tightening of credit conditions, the endogenous adjustment in the volume and cost of trade credit captures two counteracting …
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Stocks, bonds and volatility in financial markets
… stock market returns. The key idea is that, as capital constraints become more binding, speculators withdraw first from small stocks and then from large stocks. Given that asset liquidity is provided by speculators, the asset liquidity of large and small stocks would covary differently with …
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Food aid and economic development: impact of food for work on labor allocation, production and consumption behavior of small family-farms in a semi-arid area of Kenya
… infrastructure and for providing income to ease capital constraints on farm production. However, it was feared that FFW might divert labor from own-farm production and reduce the level of locally produced food crops. The purpose of this dissertation was to empirically examine these hypotheses in …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… dynamics, some of which are non-trivial. Tight capital constraints and a high rate of order arrival lead to violations of a monotonic principle. In particular, this results in observing “resting” market maker behavior when an agent does not provide liquidity. Conversely, relaxed constraints lead …
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Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
… a practical means of helping rural poor overcome capital constraints, and invest in new technology. Using an asset-based approach to poverty measurement and classification chapter three of this dissertation asks whether microfinance has a differential impact on use of improved technology and on …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Dynamics, Credit Intermediation and Financial Stability
… interaction between firm and household credit constraints over the business cycle. We construct a real business cycle model with explicit modeling of price and quantity side of housing. This allows us to include both firm and household financing frictions. The model is estimated for the U.S …
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Essays on the transition from unemployment to employment with a special emphasis on start-up subsidies in Germany
… on founding motives, the level of start-up capital and equity used as well as the sectoral distribution of the new business. Furthermore, the business survival, income situation of founders and job creation by the new businesses is analyzed during a period of 19 months after start-up. The …