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Breadth and depth of french microfinance outreach : an evaluation

Brana, Sophie; Jégourel, Yves - HAL - 2011

(MFIs), dedicated to persons partially or totally excluded from the banking sector, have therefore developed special lending … business plan, whereas the second type, mainly monthly guaranteed benefit income recipients totally excluded from the banking … activity.. One of our key results is that being either poor, socially excluded or deprived from banking resources is not a sine …

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Do mergers improve information? Evidence from the loan market

Panetta, Fabio; Schivardi, Fabiano; Shum, Matthew - Banca d'Italia - 2004

We examine the informational effects of M&As by investigating whether bank mergers improve banksï¿½ ability to screen borrowers. By exploiting a dataset in which we observe a measure of a borrowerï¿½s default risk that the lenders observe only imperfectly, we find evidence of these...

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Banking and backloading emission permits

Chaton, Corinne; Créti, Anna; Peluchon, Benoit - HAL - 2013

competitive, and the output market can be either com- petitive or oligopolistic. First, we dene the condition for which banking …

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An unexpected crisis? Looking at pricing effectiveness of different banks

Vacca, Valerio - Banca d'Italia - 2011

, thus lowering pricing effectiveness. The main finding is that larger banking groups were more affected by the sudden …

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Financial subsidies and bank lending: substitutes or complements? Micro level evidence from Italy

Carmignani, Amanda; D'Ignazio, Alessio - Banca d'Italia - 2011

public financing to firms via the banking system. The effect of public incentives depends on the availability of financial …

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Money, Banking and Dynamics: Two Wicksellian routes from Mises to Hayek and Schumpeter

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2002

treatments ofthe banking system and its effects on economic productive structures then allows to see in anew light the …

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Banks on Board

Fear, Jeffrey; Kobrak, Christopher - HAL - 2007

As part of a series of related papers, the authors examine the conceptual foundations of German and American corporate governance, specifically highlighting the role of banks' relationships to corporations and the stock market. This paper focuses on how the regulatory and macroeconomic...

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Intertemporal Emissions Trading and Allocation Rules: Gainers, Losers and the Spectre of Market Power

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2009

the decision to allow banking and borrowing, a debate which is typically overlooked by the debate to introduce the permits …

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Board structure, Ownership structure, and Firm performance : Evidence from Banking

Belkhir, Mohamed - HAL - 2006

This paper examines the interrelations among five ownership and board characteristics in a sample of 260 bank and savings-and-loan holding companies. These governance characteristics, designed to reduce agency problems between shareholders and managers, are insider ownership, blockholder...

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The causal effect of credit guarantees for SMEs: evidence from Italy

D'Ignazio, Alessio; Menon, Carlo - Banca d'Italia - 2013

We evaluate the effectiveness of a partial credit guarantee program implemented in a large Italian region using unique microdata from a broad set of firms. Our results show that the policy was effective to the extent that it resulted in an improved financial condition for the beneficiary firms....

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