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The Structure and Performance of Ethiopia's Financial Sector in the Pre- and Post-Reform Period with a Special Focus on BankingSince 1992 Ethiopia has been engaged in liberalizing its financial sector. The hallmark of the strategy is gradualism. The approach is not without problems especially from Bretton Woods Institutions that saw the reform as a sluggish process...
Banking Economic development Financial institutionsWorking Paper
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in VietnamThis paper deals with loan contracting from a private bank in Vietnam. We focus on the main loan contract features that the bank uses in lending to business firms, namely loan maturity, collateral and loan interest rate...
Banking Business enterprises ContractsJournal Article
Reconstructing and Reforming the Financial System in Conflict and ‘Post-Conflict’ EconomiesReconstructing the financial system in countries affected by violent conflict is crucial to successful and broad-based recovery...
Banking Financial institutions Social conflictWorking Paper
Loan Processing Costs and Information Asymmetries-Implications for Financial Sector Development and Economic GrowthThe paper presents a model in which credit-constrained firms might delay the adoption of new and more productive technologies because of the very high external financing costs they face...
Banking Credit Economic developmentBook Chapter
Bank Lending to Emerging Markets: Crossing the BorderFrom the book: From Capital Surges to Drought
Banking Capital market Financial crisisBook Chapter
The New Basel Capital Accord and Developing Countries: Issues, Implications and Policy ProposalsFrom the book: From Capital Surges to Drought
Banking Business cycles Risk managementJournal Article
Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety NetsPoor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms...
Banking Financial crisis Financial institutionsJournal Article
Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed EconomiesThis article argues that developing countries face inherent obstacles in setting up efficient financial regulation, and building up a sound banking sector: the presence of multiple tasks and multiple principals, poor institutions, lack of economies o...
Banking Financial crisis Financial institutionsWorking Paper
Bank Lending to Emerging Markets: Crossing the BorderThis paper has two aims. The first is to provide some explanation for the extraordinary collapse in cross-border bank lending to developing countries which has taken place since 1997...
Banking Capital market Financial crisisWorking Paper
The New Basel Capital Accord and Developing Countries: Issues, Implications and Policy ProposalsThis paper argues that, if implemented in its current form, the new Basel Capital Accord will adversely effect developing sovereigns, corporates and banks wishing to borrow in international markets...
Banking Business cycles Risk managementJournal Article
How Fast Do Banks Adjust?: A DyA Dynamic Model of Labor-Use with an Application to Swedish BanksThis paper deals with a dynamic adjustment process in which adjustment of a key variable input (labor) towards its desired level is modeled in a panel data context...
Banking Labour ProductivityBook Chapter
Financial Sector Regulation in a Globalized ContextFrom the book: Globalization, Marginalization and Development
Banking Financial crisis Financial institutionsWorking Paper
Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Burkina FasoThis study tests the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Burkina Faso using indicators such as the sustainable interest rate and the subsidy dependence index...
Banking Competition Cost effectivenessBook Chapter
Negotiated Land Reform as One Way of Land Access: Experiences from Colombia, Brazil, and South AfricaFrom the book: Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
Agriculture Banking Comparative economicsBook Chapter
The Southeast Asian Currency CrisisFrom the book: Short-Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises
Banking Capital Financial crisisWorking Paper
Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed EconomiesBeginning with an empirical analysis of banking crises using a logit econometric model covering a sample of developed and developing countries between 1980-97, the paper suggests that crises are more likely in years of low growth and high real intere...
Banking Financial crisis Financial institutions