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The Liquidity Sprint: Short‐Term Cash Needs and Access to Credit

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We identify the causal drivers of the COVID‐19 ‘dash‐for‐cash’ in Europe using a hand‐collected panel of Euro‐area firms (2018‐Q4–2020‐Q3). Exploiting regional infection intensity as an instrument, we find that a one‐unit EBITDA decline raised credit‐line utilization by 15.5 percentage points in 2020‐Q2. Unlike the US ‘fallen‐angel’ narrative,
Mario Cerrato, Shengfeng Mei, Hormoz Ramian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Stay indoors with Purdah, men will make the money": A qualitative study investigating women's microfinance participation and mobility practices in Bangladesh. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bristi KFA, Shohel TA, Shovo TE, Mumu MN, Nizam H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Regulatory Costs Impede Financial Technology Gains

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While financial technology innovation lowers intermediation costs, regulatory frictions may prevent these gains from reaching long‐term investors and borrowers. Using variation in retail investor participation driven by state securities registration lapses in peer‐to‐peer lending, we demonstrate that regulatory frictions are associated with ...
Shyam Venkatesan, Brian Wolfe, Woongsun Yoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating rural healthcare workforce programs: Applying modified whole-of-person retention improvement framework in VHA programs. [PDF]

J Rural Health
Longacre MR, Kinney LM, Carluzzo KL, Watts BV, Schifferdecker KE.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Disparities in access to dermatological care in Texas counties and their implications on public health. [PDF]

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
Dawamne T, McKenzie A, Cherradi R, Parekh P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Finality and Continuity: What Drives Bereaved Parents to Choose Posthumous Sperm Retrieval

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore bereaved parents' experience of deciding to pursue posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) and the meaning they associate with this choice. Background The death of a child profoundly disrupts the natural order of life, leaving parents with loss of meaning and identity.
Yael Doft, Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Shani Pitcho, Michal Mahat‐Shamir   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Information Technologies on the Bankruptcy Decision

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exploiting the staggered adoptions of electronic systems across 70 bankruptcy courts in the United States, I investigate the impacts of digital transformation on bankruptcy behavior. The digital transformation in bankruptcy courts significantly lowered the cost of filing by enabling debtors to file for bankruptcy online, yet empirical tests ...
Jeyul Yang
wiley   +1 more source

A project-level dataset of Chinese Belt and Road energy investments 2013-2023. [PDF]

Sci Data
Yin G, Calzadilla A, Bleischwitz R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating Contested Spaces: Gendered Interactions in Everyday Entrepreneuring Among Jua Kali Women in Rural Kenya

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the daily experiences of Jua Kali women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts.
Tabitha Sindani, Cécile Guillaume, Mayra Ruiz‐Castro, Carole Elliott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source