Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit [PDF]
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities.
Kneiding, Christoph +1 more
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Measurement and Comparison of Risk Reduction by Means of Farm Yield, Area Yield, and Weather Index Crop Insurance Schemes - The Case of Kazakhstani Wheat Farms [PDF]
We analyse area yield insurance contracts and weather index insurance contracts in terms of risk reduction for wheat farms in Kazakhstan over the period 1980-2002.
Bokusheva, Raushan +2 more
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Productivity Growth, Technical Efficiency and Technical Change on Minnesota Farms [PDF]
Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from panel data for ...
Olson, Kent D., Vu, Linh
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The modelling of operational risk: experience with the analysis of the data collected by the Basel Committee [PDF]
The revised Basel Capital Accord requires banks to meet a capital requirement for operational risk as part of an overall risk-based capital framework.
Marco Moscadelli
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Cross currency swap valuation [PDF]
Cross currency swaps are powerful instruments to transfer assets or liabilities from one currency into another. The market charges for this a liquidity premium, the cross currency basis spread, which should be taken into account by the valuation ...
Boenkost, Wolfram, Schmidt, Wolfgang M.
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Long-Term Global Market Correlations [PDF]
In this paper we examine the correlation structure of the major world equity markets over 150 years. We find that correlations vary considerably through time and are highest during periods of economic and financial integration such as the late 19th and ...
K. Geert Rouwenhorst +2 more
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Efficiency in Indonesian Banking: Recent Evidence [PDF]
In one of the first stand-alone studies covering the whole of the Indonesian banking industry, and utilising a unique dataset provided by the Indonesian central bank, this paper analyses the levels of intermediation-based efficiency obtaining during 2007.
Karligash Kenjegalieva +5 more
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Long Run Neutrality of Money in Mexico [PDF]
The Fisher-Seater (FS) methodology is used to investigate long run money neutrality with respect to real GDP and real output in ten selected industries in Mexico.
Frederick H.Wallace, Gary L. Shelley
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Efficiency of Financial Institutions: International Survey and Directions for Future Research [PDF]
This paper surveys 130 studies that apply frontier efficiency analysis to financial institutions in 21 countries. The primary goals are to summarize and critically review empirical estimates of financial institution efficiency and to attempt to arrive at
Allen N. Berger, David B. Humphrey
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Impact of crowdfunding, entrepreneurial finance and varieties of entrepreneurial ecosystems after COVID pandemic for rural women. [PDF]
PLoS OneLyu Z, Murtaza N.
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