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Using Financial Ratios to Identify Romanian Distressed Companies
Andreica, Madalina; Andreica, Mugurel Ionut; Andreica, Marin - HAL - 2009
In the context of the current financial crisis, when more companies are facing bankruptcy or insolvency, the paper aims to find methods to identify distressed firms by using financial ratios. The study will focus on identifying a group of Romanian listed companies, for which financial data for...
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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana
Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011
. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738826
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Urbanism, an overview
Palma, André De; Guimard, Alexandre - HAL - 2014
Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899733
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930218
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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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Applying the gravity approach to sector trade: who bears the trade costs?
Cheptea, A.; Gohin, A.; Huchet-Bourdon, Maryline - HAL - 2008
Thanks to its empirical success, the gravity approach is widely used to explain trade patterns between countries. In this article we question the simple application of this approach to product/sector-level trade on two grounds. First, we demonstrate that the traditional Armington version of...
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Measuring corruption: perception surveys or victimization surveys?
Roca, Thomas - HAL - 2011
While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have access to population's feeling about the corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323507
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Health expenditure growth : reassessing the threat of ageing
Dormont, Brigitte; Grignon, Michel; Huber, Hélène - HAL - 2006
In this paper we evaluate the respective effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on growth in health care expenditures. We use microdata, i.e. representative samples of 3441 and 5003 French individuals observed in 1992 and 2000. Our data provide detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789092
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Contract 
Dynamics
:
 Lessons
 from
 Empirical
 Analyses
Chaudey, Magali - HAL - 2010
The recognition that contracts have a time dimension has given rise to a very abundant literature since the end of the 1980s. In such a dynamic context, the contract may take place over several periods and develop repeated interactions. Then, the principal topics of the analysis are commitment,...
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Healthy aging versus demographic trends: the French case, estimated by markovian microsimulation methods
Thiébaut, Sophie; Armstrong, Andrew; Ventelou, Bruno - HAL - 2009
The Objective of this paper is to test the consequences of changes in health status of future cohorts of French elderly on healthcare expenditures. We value the precise effect of epidemiological and life expectancy changes on health expenditures for 2025 by using a markovian microsimulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793682