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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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FORECASTING IN EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
… time series of three Eastern European countries (EECs): namely, the Czech republic, Hungary and Poland. The idea is to develop a natural extension to my previous studies, in particular those presented in Junicke (2017), where I applied Bayesian inference to produce an empirical …
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Hospital valuation in emerging countries
Private health players in emerging countries have increased their presence and contributed to global health issues, but have been undervalued in financing. A variety of health players have evolved and hospitals have played a pivotal role. However, hospitals in developing countries face significant …
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Tax evasion and the demand for currency in developing countries: A panel study of African countries
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:51:17Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Network pricing in the Nordic countries
Die Untersuchung bewertet die Preissetzung der lokalen Stromverteilungsunternehmen in den Nordischen Ländern. Nach der Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen der Kostenstruktur, der Preissetzung und der gängigsten Regulierungsmethoden der natürlichen Monopole im ersten Teil wird im zweiten Teil …
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Travel demand modeling for developing countries
… of the UTPP may not be relevant to developing countries in third world settings; The main objectives of this research are to study the travel characteristics and sensitivity of key factors affecting travel demand of the people in the third world and to develop a framework that allows for the …
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AID Effectiveness in Post-Conflict Countries
Since the end of the Cold War, post-conflict countries have attracted widespread economic assistance and policy advice from donor community to support their recoveries from war, to rebuild institutional capacities, and to restore their human and social capital. Yet, donor responses to post-conflict …
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Conflicts and refugees in developing countries
… the rate of economic growth in developing countries. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate whether refugees and conflict help to explain Africa and other developing regions’ rate of economic growth. Economists, especially development economists, have been long engaged with the …
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Trade Integration Among the GCC Countries
… trade integration among Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) by examining the effect of GCC Free Trade Agreement (GCC CU) on trade among GCC countries during the 1995-2012 period. Different variations of the gravity model of international trade are applied to a set of bilateral trade flows …
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Should Oil-Producing Countries Go Downstream?
… of the refinery capacity in oil-producing countries is a rising trend. The fact that the majority of oil producers have already begun to vertically integrate into the downstream oil refining segment calls for a detailed examination of the implication of such investments. Oil-producing …
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Essays on banking in developing countries
… Kenya in 2007 and subsequently in other emerging countries such as Albania, Romania, India, Egypt and several other African countries - to examine its impact on the performance and outreach of commercial banks. The first essay investigates the impact of foreign bank entry, home and host country …
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Tourism development in less developed countries.
… are highly relevant to other less developed countries (LDCs), especially those having a background of war and/or civil turmoil. The thesis also addresses questions related to tourism as a development agent for economic growth, social rehabilitation and political development. For example: • …
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Japanese educational assistance to developing countries
… its educational assistance to developing countries and has steadily increased the number of training programs and centers for technical assistance to developing nations both in Japan and overseas. In addition, the Japanese government also has begun to support the rapidly increasing number …
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation for quality. A key problem in developing countries is the lack of reliable provision of high quality goods and …
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Environmental policy implementation in developing countries
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Peanut oil press for developing countries
… Organization, one third of people in developing countries are malnourished as well as vitamin or mineral deficient. While villagers do not have access to commercially produced vegetable oil (a common source of dietary fat), nor are industrial scale oil extraction methods appropriate for small …
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Supply chain financing in Developing countries
… in small and medium sized firms in developing countries. The first phase consists of exploratory, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in international development, financing and supply chain management. The exploratory interviews were used to develop an understanding of how relevant …
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Deploying Best Practices in Unfamiliar Countries
… deployment of best practices in unfamiliar countries in response to rapid globalization in the engineering and construction industry. The engineering and construction industry needs processes, metrics and tools to improve the deployment of best practices in unfamiliar countries to help …
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Civil-Military relations in post-communist countries
Since 1989 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone an unprecedented transition from communism to democracy. Establishment of democratic control of armed forces is an inseparable part of the process of consolidation of democracy. The purpose of this thesis is to define those …
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Saving for capital formation in underdeveloped countries
… to promote economic growth in underdeveloped countries.</p><p>In order to accomplish this goal, the following steps will be taken: (1) The various kinds or concepts of savings, i.e., voluntary saving (including savings from utilization of under-employed labor), compulsory saving through …
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