Too much and too fast? Public investment scaling-up and absorptive capacity
In: Journal of development economics, Band 120, S. 17-31
ISSN: 0304-3878
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In: Journal of development economics, Band 120, S. 17-31
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of economics, Band 107, Heft 3, S. 287-290
ISSN: 1617-7134
In: The European journal of development research, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 606-626
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: The European journal of development research: journal of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Band 24, Heft 4, S. 606-626
ISSN: 0957-8811
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In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 351-378
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: Global finance series
In: Journal of international economics, Band 131, S. 103474
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: Economic notes, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 445-472
ISSN: 1468-0300
Due to deregulation and financial liberalization, Latin American countries have recently undertaken bank restructuring and consolidation processes. This paper investigates firm access to credit in the region, focusing on the role of the credit market structure. Through an empirical investigation based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we find that access to bank credit is very heterogeneous. On average, smaller and less productive firms are less likely to apply for credit and more likely to be financially constrained. Besides, a high degree of bank penetration and competition is significantly correlated with a lower probability that borrowers are financially constrained. Finally, foreign banks penetration has a negative effect on access to credit particularly in less developed and more concentrated markets, while it has a positive influence in more competitive and financially developed markets.
In: Journal of international economics, Band 97, Heft 1, S. 45-58
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 91-108
ISSN: 0954-1748
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 91-108
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractRecent years have seen an intense and critical debate about the impact of microcredit on entrepreneurial activities and poor households' welfare. This paper suggests that information asymmetries in the ex post loan arrangement between the microfinance institution and local borrowers could partially explain the limited impact of microcredit. The physical distance separating borrowers from the microfinance institution could be considered as a proxy of agency costs, increasing the costs of monitoring and easing moral hazard. The estimation of the effect of distance on the borrower's self‐assessed outcome of a microcredit project in Colombia confirms the presence of moral hazard in the microcredit market, with agency costs increasing with geographical distance. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This paper surveys the recent literature on the links between public debt and economic growth in advanced economies. We find that theoretical models yield ambiguous results. Whether high levels of public debt have a negative effect on long-run growth is thus an empirical question. While many papers have found a negative correlation between debt and growth, our reading of the empirical literature is that there is no paper that can make a strong case for a causal relationship going from debt to economic growth. We also find that the presence of thresholds and, more in general, of a non-monotone relationship between debt and growth is not robust to small changes in data coverage and empirical techniques. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges involved in measuring and defining public debt and some suggestions for future research which, in our view, should emphasize cross-country heterogeneity.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 40, Heft 10, S. 1944-1969
In: Journal of development economics, Band 130, S. 1-16
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 130, S. 1-16
ISSN: 0304-3878
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