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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"credit constraints"”.
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The impact of credit constraints on agricultural productivity in Tanzania
… to empirically investigate the determinants of credit constraint status and its impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we directly elicit the nature of the credit constraints experienced by crop producers. Subsequently, we evaluate the effect on crop output value per hectare using …
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An asset-based theory of housing choice under credit constraints : the case of Korea
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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Conversion from Staple to Cash Crop Production in Mexico After NAFTA: Effects of PROCAMPO and Credit Constraints
… and whether these payments continue to alleviate credit constraints for poorer producers. Given that World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations are currently stalled in part because of the trade concerns of developing nations, exploring the constraints that small producers face and whether …
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Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
… in perfect financial markets and those facing credit constraints, due to imperfect capital markets. However, as in these markets, saving and investment decision may not be separable, we obtain the optimal dynamic path of these decisions for agents that own capital but do not have any access to …
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Financial development, credit rationing and the distribution of income: South Africa 1913-2008
… of the impact of financial development and credit constraints on earnings inequality in the country between 1923 and 2008. The time-span is particularly interesting, as it includes three distinct political regimes: colonialism, apartheid and democracy.
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The economics of personal bankruptcy
… income below a given exemption level from creditors. Increasing bankruptcy exemption levels are found to increase borrowing and to increase consumer welfare so long as the consumer is borrowing less than the maximum amount possible. If consumers are borrowing the maximum amount possible, …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… student aid, one tool intended to ameliorate credit constraints in the market for higher education. The second chapter examines whether government programs providing support to low-income families should explicitly support or deny access to higher education by analyzing the impact of college …
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Essays on the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism
… mechanism in four chapters. The first chapter, Credit Constraints in a New Keynesian Framework: A Simple Theoretical Analysis, studies how financial frictions alter equilibrium outcomes. I show that collateral borrowing constraints have general equilibrium effects that operate via four channels; …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… remains sub-optimal due to information and credit constraints. Though more students are enrolling, schools are demonstrating poor productivity as students have low levels of learning. Understanding the impacts of migration, optimizing farmer productivity and increasing their income, and …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Access to credit is universally believed to be an effective tool to help the poor out of poverty. Yet the evidence for this has not considered all settings, especially the peri-urban areas of rapidly industrialising Asian countries. In these areas human capital is the main asset of the poor, so it …
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance : small firms and their banks
… financial advice to small firms in alleviating credit constraints. The third essay explores patterns of SMEs’ discouragement towards borrowing in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The final empirical essay introduces a novel concept (“informal turndown”) designed to further illuminate …
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… patents. To test for the presence of credit constraints I generate two wealth proxies from inventor names and addresses, and find a larger innovation response for inventors with lower wealth. These results indicate efficiency gains from decreasing the cost of inventing and in addition, …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… lifecycle overlapping-generation model with credit constraints, endogenous fertility, and human capital investment to evaluate the long-run effects of federal student loans. I estimate the model to match features of micro-level U.S. household survey data in the 2000s. I find that federal …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
… of government policies in economies with credit constraints and heterogeneous agents. Given the complexity to compute such models, the third chapter reviews the basics of parallel computing in macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I quantitatively assess the welfare maximizing policy …
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Migration and development in Mexican communities
… remittances in stimulating demand and relaxing credit constraints, while the pessimistic view emphasizes the departure of the economy's skilled and motivated workers. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project and exploiting stickiness in migrants' choice of U.S. destination, I examine the …
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
… farmers tend to drop off labor markets due to credit constraints and lack of investment in their health assets. Further pension policy reforms might prioritize health benefits and access to credit, in order to prevent the farmers from being trapped by poor health and credit constraints. There …
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The Finance-Growth Nexus in Britain, 1850-1913
… lending practices did not significantly increase credit constraints, as had been previously suspected. Findings from new geographically disaggregated data indicate that the spread of bank offices improved the economic performance of English and Welsh counties. Increased concentration of the …
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Essays in macro and development economics
… goods from each other in the presence of credit constraints. These credit constraints distort input choices, thereby reducing equilibrium demand for upstream goods and creating a wedge between the potential sales ("influence") and actual sales by upstream sectors. I analyze policy …
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Essays in Internal Capital Markets in the U.S. Property-Liability Insurance Industry
… to expand as long as the benefit of relaxing credit constraints is greater than the cost of managing larger internal capital markets. Overall, the result of the study is consistent with the view that better alignment of executive incentives with shareholder interests leads to efficient …
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