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Financial Development, Gender and Entrepreneurship

Llussá, Fernanda - 2009

: access to financial services. We use a dataset with entrepreneurship rates by opportunity and by need from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor and indicators of financial institutions from Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt and Levine (2000) for 41 developed and … entrepreneurial activity, is unlikely, by itself, to contribute to bring male and female entrepreneurship rates closer together …

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Development and access to finance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Mongolia

Doojav, Gan-Ochir; Luvsannyam, Davaajargal; Sukhbaatar, … - 2019

This paper presents a recent survey on development and access to finance of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in Mongolia. The survey covers a sample of 1922 SMEs from Ulaanbaatar (capital city) and 21 provinces. We find that banks and local government administration are the most...

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Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis

Volcker, Paul A. - 2009

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

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Are the regulatory reforms working? [electronic resource] : evidence from audit committee members' selection of auditors

Looknanan-Brown, Veena. - 2011

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act made audit committees directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, and supervision of companies' auditors. Limited research in the auditor selection process and PCAOB inspections suggest that managers, not audit committees, may still be selecting the auditors,...

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Information technology investment evaluation and measurement (ITIEM) methodology: A case study and action research of the dimensions and measures of IT - business -value in financial institutions.

Nel, Johan Floris - 2004

This study was motivated by the researcher's, as well as his superior's, concern that afundamental area of business, information technology investment and evaluation, continues to be problematic for many organisations. The lack of an integrated and methodical approach to the problem, as well as...

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The success rate of business plans at selected financial institutions / by Sello Maphosa

Maphosa, Matthew Sello Seaketso - 2008

The purpose of this research was to determine the success rate of business plan proposals submitted at selected financial institutions. In the context of this study, selected financial institutions refer to the four main retail banks of South Africa, namely ABSA, First National Bank, Standard...

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Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context: the International Accounting Standards Board and accounting disaggregation

Gallhofer, Sonja; Haslam, Jim - 2007

We elaborate an immanent critique of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), critically exploring its claim to serve the public interest by reference to its character and position, its official principles and its work vis-à-vis campaigns to disaggregate accounting focused on...

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Money and Production: A Pluralist Analysis

Weir, Diarmid J. G. - 2008

The purpose of this thesis is to argue that the core of a monetary economy is a network of triangular contracts between banks, firms, workers and capital goods suppliers. Not only does this network give rise to the creation and valuation of money but it is the organising feature of modern...

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The effects of a human resources information technology intervention on background check processing in a financial institution: A process level analysis.

Mallari, Alexander David - 2008

The human resources department of a financial institution implemented a multi-component intervention to replace a paper-based hiring system. Organization-wide impacts included changes in the background check operations. To support changes, training was conducted and procedure manuals...

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Containing systemic risk

Whelan, Karl - 2009

Systemic risk refers to the risk of financial system breakdown due to linkagesbetween institutions. This risk cannot be assessed by looking at how individualinstitutions manage risks but instead requires a full understanding of how thesystem as a whole operates. At present, the data available to...

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