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Does Institutional Finance Matter for Agriculture? Evidence Using Panel Data from Uganda

Khandker, Shahidur R.; Koolwal, Gayatri B. - 2014

Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit. Past efforts to extend institutional credit to smaller farmers has failed for several...

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Bank Supervision and Corporate Finance

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2003

The authors examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across … tend to face greater financing obstacles. Moreover, powerful official supervision tends to increase firm reliance on … banks and enhance private monitoring tend to ease the financing obstacles faced by firms …

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Decentralized Creditor-Led Corporate Restructuring : Cross-Country Experience

Dado, Marinela E.; Klingebiel, Daniela - 2002

Countries that have experienced banking crises have adopted one of two distinct approaches toward the resolution of non-performing assets-a centralized or a decentralized solution. A centralized approach entails setting up a government agency-an asset management company-with the full...

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Foreign Banks and International Transmission of Monetary Policy : Evidence from the Syndicated Loan Market

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Horváth, Bálint L.; Huizinga, Harry - 2017

This paper uses loan-level data from 124 countries over 1995–2015 to examine the transmission of monetary policy through the cross-border syndicated loan market. The results show that the expansion of monetary policy increases cross-border credit supply especially to weaker firms. However,...

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Financial Channels, Property Rights, and Poverty : A Sub-Saharan African Perspective

Huang, Yifei; Singh, Raju Jan - 2016

Studies on the link between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that deeper financial sectors should improve the allocation of capital by allowing entrepreneurs greater access to finance, which should particularly favor the poor. Others argue that improvements in...

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Cyclical Effects of Bank Capital Requirements with Imperfect Credit Markets

Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. - 2012

This paper analyzes the cyclical effects of bank capital requirements in a simple model with credit market imperfections. Lending rates are set as a premium over the cost of borrowing from the central bank, with the premium itself depending on firms effective collateral. Basel I- and Basel...

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Funding vs. Real Economy Shock : The Impact of the 2007-2009 Crisis on Small Firms' Credit Availability

Berg, Gunhild; Kirschenmann, Karolin - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of two distinct shocks stemming from the cross-border transmission of the 2007-2009 crisis on credit availability for small firms. The paper uses data from AccessBank Azerbaijan which was affected in its liquidity position during the second and third quarters of...

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Causes and Implications of Credit Rationing in Rural Ethiopia : The Importance of Spatial Variation

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W. - 2012

This paper uses Ethiopian data to explore credit rationing in semi-formal credit markets and its effects on farmers' resource allocation and crop productivity. Credit rationing -- both voluntarily and involuntarily -- is found to be widespread in the sampled rural villages, largely because of...

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Gross Inflows Gone Wild : Gross Capital Inflows, Credit Booms and Crises

Calderón, César A.; Kubota, Megumi - 2013

The main goal of the paper is to examine whether surges in private capital inflows lead to credit booms. The authors built a quarterly database on gross capital inflows, credit to the private sector, and other macro-financial indicators for a sample of 71 countries from 1975q1 to 2010q4....

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Microfinance and Moneylenders : Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2013

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village moneylender interest rates and households' dependence on informal credit. The views among practitioners diverge sharply: proponents claim that competition of microfinance...

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