The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries‚ in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development.[2] It also offers financial and technical assistance to its members‚ making it an international lender of last resort. Its headquarters are located
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THE IMPACT OF REGULATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS 1 ABSTRACT The role of an effective regulatory regime in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent years. In particular‚ building effective regulatory structures in developing countries is not simply an issue of the technical design of the most appropriate regulatory instruments‚ it is also concerned with the quality
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Routledge. Secchi‚ D. (2009). The Cognitive Side of Social Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics. 88 (1)‚ p565-581. Simms‚ A. (2006). Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd. p177-230. Stiglitz‚ J. (2006). Making Globalisation Work. London: Allen Lane. Sundaram‚ A & Inkpen‚ A. (2004). The corporate objective revisited. Organisational Science. 15 (3) p350-363. Waddock‚ S. (2001). The Multiple Bottom Lines of Corporate Citizenship: Social
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GLOBALISATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE STATE Spring 2005 Mondays‚ 8.10 p.m. to 9.50 p.m. Prof. Ahmad Kamal‚ former Ambassador of Pakistan OVERVIEW This course will examine the critical and rapidly changing role of the state at the beginning of a new millennium as a result of internal and external factors‚ paying special attention to the state as a central player in ensuring the provision of public services‚ as well as facing the new challenges emerging around the world. It will enable students to: •
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BUSINESS‚ SOCIETY & ETHICS BA 3102‚ 015 Prof. Stuart M. Schmidt Fall 2014 Office: Alter 351 [Main Campus] Temple University MWF 2-4:00 & by Appt. W 5:30-8:00 Voice: (215) 204-1621 Virtual Office: schmidt@temple.edu ______________________________________________________________________ COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. To increase
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SMEs‚ FDI and capital market imperfections Wouter De Maeseneire∗ Erasmus University Rotterdam‚ The Netherlands PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 10 408 15 07 Fax: +31 10 408 91 65 email: demaeseneire@few.eur.nl Tine Claeys Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Reep 1 9000 Ghent Belgium Tel: +32 9 2109773 Fax: +32 9 2109751 Email: tine.claeys@vlerick.be ABSTRACT This paper aims at exploring the problems experienced by SMEs in gaining access to debt and equity finance for FDI
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Economic Association‚ 1-14. Solow‚ R. M.(1956) “A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics‚ 70 (1)‚ 65-94. Solow (1994) “Perspectives on Growth Theory”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives‚ 8(1)‚ 45-54. Stiglitz‚ J. (2002)‚ Globalization and its Discontents‚ W. W Norton‚ USA Strachan‚ D. (2002) “Review Article: Economic Transition in Africa; Statist Economic Policies‚ Changing Roles and Reforms”‚ Journal of Economic Studies‚ Vol.28‚ No. 3‚ pp231-239. Thoenig
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486-0634; E-mail: thomas.obrien@uconn.edu Acknowledgements: The authors thank Ivan Brick‚ Shanta Hegde‚ Tim Manuel (especially)‚ and Steve Wyatt for reading the paper and for insightful comments. Abstract: Recent Nobel Prizes to Akerlof‚ Spence‚ and Stiglitz motivate this review of basic concepts and empirical evidence on information asymmetry and the choice of debt vs. equity. We first review the literature that holds investment fixed. Then we review capital structure issues related to the adverse
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Behavioral finance: Emerging trends --Nihar Raut raut.nihar@gmail.com What is behavioral finance? What we know today as behavioral finance was initiated some three decades ago by a small number of people who asked questions seldom asked before and offered answers not offered before. Today‚ many people are engaged in behavioral finance‚ and there is wide disagreement about its boundaries and frontiers. Many see behavioral finance mainly as a refutation of the efficient market hypothesis and
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