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Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...
Support for smallholder farmers through Islamic instruments: The case of Bangladesh and lessons for Nigeria
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments with more scope for fairness and equity can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the development process and poverty alleviation ...
Gender effects for loss aversion: Yes, no, maybe?
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
Gender effects in risk taking have attracted much attention by economists, and remain debated. Loss aversion—the stylized finding that a given loss carries substantially greater weight than a monetarily equivalent gain—is ...
The impact of Sukuk on the insolvency risk of conventional and Islamic banks
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of Sukuk market development on bank insolvency risk using a sample comprising 72 Islamic banks (IBs) and 145 conventional banks (CBs) spanning 15 countries over the 2003–2014 period. We ...
Water demand in Qatar: Future trends and conservation scenarios
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European Water Resources Association (EWRA)
, 2019 , Article)
We model water consumption in the market segment
that compose the Qatari water market. We link water
consumption to population growth. Building on the estimated model, we develop long-range ...
Revisiting the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Inflation in Egypt: Why Is the Statistical Association Weak in the Short Run?
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Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies (AIELAS)
, 2019 , Article)
This study investigates the question of “Why is the statistical association between exchange rate shocks and domestic inflation in Egypt weak?” The study relies on two econometric models, the SVAR model and the Markov ...