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Impact of implicit government guarantee on the credit spread of urban construction investment bonds
Financial InnovationFinancing sources for urban construction have garnered significant attention globally. Among various financing methods, the urban construction investment bond (UCIB) is unique to China. The UCIB credit spread, which represents the compensation for credit
Rongda Chen +5 more
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Effects of Aggregation and Model Structure on Model Linkages [PDF]
Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance, Environmental Economics and Policy,
Bektasoglu, Beyhan +2 more
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Behavioral finance as a subdiscipline of behavioral economics is finance incorporating findings from psychology and sociology into its theories. Behavioral finance models are usually developed to explain investor behavior or market anomalies when ...
Glaser, Markus +2 more
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Social sector expenditures and rainy-day funds [PDF]
Gonzalez and Paqueo examine the effects of budget stabilization funds--often called rainy-day funds--on the volatility of social spending and, for contrast, on nonsocial sector spending. They analyze the rainy-day funds of U.S. states.
Gonzalez, Christian Y. +1 more
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Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance [PDF]
The authors examine how institutional arrangements affect incentives that govern the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources. They use a diagnostic questionnaire to elicit the relative strengths and weaknesses of specific systems in terms of ...
Campos, Ed, Pradhan, Sanjay
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Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform [PDF]
The authors review the evidence on the state of infrastructure in the developing world, emphasizing the investment needs and the emerging policy issues.
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia +2 more
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Are Corn Trend Yields Increasing at a Faster Rate? [PDF]
Agricultural Finance, Demand and Price Analysis, Financial Economics, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
Good, Darrel L. +2 more
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Project Finance as a Driver of Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries [PDF]
This study investigates the role of project finance as a driver of economic growth. We hypothesize that project finance is beneficial to the least developed economies as it compensates for any lack of domestic financial development.
Kleimeier, Stefanie, Versteeg, Roald
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Regionalism in standards - good or bad for trade? [PDF]
Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. The authors find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements increase trade between participating countries but not
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang, Mattoo, Aaditya
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