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Determinants of Credit Constrained Firms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe Region

Thomadakis, Apostolos - 2016

Based on survey data covering 6,547 firms in 10 Central and Eastern European countries we examine the impact of the banking sector environment, as well as the institutional and regulatory environment, on credit constrained firms. We find that small and foreign-owned firms are less likely to...

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Pricing better

Ray, Sourav; Wang, Li; Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - 2019

Electronic shelf label (ESL) is an emerging price display technology around the world. While these new technologies require non-trivial investments by the retailer, they also promise significant operational efficiencies in the form of savings in material, labor and managerial costs. The presumed...

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Imposing choice on the uninformed: The case of dynamic currency conversion

Ewerhart, Christian; Li, Sheng - 2023

consumers, turns out to be highly asymmetric, entailing fees for the service provider that persistently exceed the monopoly …

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Imposing choice on the uninformed: The case of dynamic currency conversion

Ewerhart, Christian; Li, Sheng - 2023

exceed the monopoly level. Although losses in welfare may be substantial, a regulatory solution is unlikely to come about due …

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Imposing choice under ambiguity: The case of dynamic currency conversion

Ewerhart, Christian; Li, Sheng - 2020

fees for the service provider that always exceed the monopoly level. Although losses in welfare may be substantial, a …

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Imposing choice under ambiguity: The case of dynamic currency conversion

Ewerhart, Christian; Li, Sheng - 2020

fees for the service provider that always exceed the monopoly level. Although losses in welfare may be substantial, a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244617

Does it pay to read your junk mail? Evidence of the effect of advertising on home equity credit choices

Agarwal, Sumit; Ambrose, Brent W. - 2008

We examine the effect of direct mail (commonly referred to as junk mail) advertising on individual financial decisions by studying consumer choice of home equity debt contracts. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find that financial variables underlying the relative pricing of debt...

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Structured Microfinance in China

Byström, Hans - 2007

In this paper we discuss the potential for commercial microfinance in China. Particular emphasis is put on … securitization of microloans and on structured microfinance in a China context. Three particular factors that we believe could … side, structured microfinance could be an important tool for fighting unemployment in China. It could also be used to …

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Lending for Growth? An Analysis of State-Owned Banks in China

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Burzynska, Katarzyna; Opper, Sonja - 2013

This paper provides the first comparative analysis of different types of publicly owned banks operating in China … between 1997 and 2008. Using principal component analysis and Granger-causality tests, this study shows that China's state … commercial banks did promote domestic growth. China's experience presents a more nuanced picture of state banking that goes …

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Competitive dynamics across industries: An analysis of inter-industry competition in German passenger transportation

Albers, Sascha; Heuermann, Caroline - 2012

Whereas analyses of competitive dynamics have hitherto focused on analysing the effects of intra-industry interaction on firm performance, we explore and analyse competition between actors that stem from different industries. This inter-industry focus is novel and interesting, as it allows the...

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