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The policy research working papers below are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options. Choose the 'light-weight documents' option for easy download.
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Developing Indicators of Access to Financial ServicesSmall and Medium Enterprises: Overcoming Growth Constraints| WPS3485 | Finance, firm size, and growth | Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross | 2005/01 | | 29898 | SMEs, growth, and poverty | Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli | 2004/02 | | WPS3204 | The determinants of financing obstacles | Thorsten Beck; ; Luc Laeven; Vojislav Maksimovic | 2004/02 | | WPS3127 | Small and medium enterprises across the globe : a new database | Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asl | 2003/08 | | WPS2997 | Financial and legal institutions and firm size | Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav | 2003/03 | | WPS2905 | Financing patterns around the world : the role of institutions | Beck, Thorsten; Asl Demirguc-Kunt; Maksimovic, Vojislav | 2002/10 | | WPS2784 | Financial and legal constraints to firm growth - Does size matter? | Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav | 2002/02 | | WPS2656 | The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses | Berger, Allen N.; Klapper, Leora F.; Udell, Gregory F. | 2001/08 |
Bank Concentration and CompetitionBank Privatization| WPS3619 | State bank transformation in Brazil - choices and consequences | Beck, Thorsten; Crivelli, Juan Miguel; Summerhill, William | 2005/06 | | WPS3511 | Bank privatization and performance - emprical evidence from Nigeria | Beck, Thorsten; Cull, Robert; Jerome, Afeikhena | 2005/02 | | WPS2633 | Bank privatization in Argentina : a model of political constraints and differential outcomes | Clarke, George R. G.; Cull, Robert | 2001/07 | | WPS2325 | Banking systems around the globe : do regulation and ownership affect the performance and stability? | Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard; Levine, Ross | 2000/04 | | WPS2159 | Provincial bank privatization in Argentina : the why, how, and "so what"? | Clarke, George R. G.; Cull, Robert | 1999/08 | | WPS1972 | Why privatize? : the case of Argentina's public provincial banks | Clarke, George R.; Cull, Robert | 1998/09 | | WPS1962 | The political economy of privatization : an empirical analysis of bank privatization in Argentina | Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert | 1998/08 |
Foreign Bank Entry| WPS2893 | Banking on foreigners : the behavior of international Bank lending to Latin America, 1985-2000 | Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; Powell, Andrew; Hollar, Ivanna Vladkova | 2002/09 | | WPS2760 | Bank lending to small businesses in Latin America : does Bank origin matter? | Clarke, George R. G.; Cull, Robert; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; Sanchez, Susana M. | 2002/01 | | WPS2716 | Does foreign bank penetration reduce access to credit in developing countries " evidence from asking borrowers | Clarke, George R. G.; Cull, Robert; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad | 2001/11 | | WPS2698 | Foreign bank entry - experience, implications for developing countries, and agenda for further research | Clarke, George; Cull, Robert; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; Sanchez, Susana M. | 2001/10 |
Corporate Governance| WPS3600 | What drives corporate governance reform? firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe | Klapper, Leora F; Laeven, Luc; Love, Inessa | 2005/05 | | WPS3101 | Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors | Reena Aggarwal; Leora Klapper; Peter D. Wysocki | 2003/07 | | WPS2818 | Corporate governance, investor protection, and performance in emerging markets | Klapper, Leora F.; Love, Inessa | 2002/04 | | WPS2568 | Ownership structure and the temptation to loot : evidence from privatized firms in the Czech Republic | Cull, Robert; Matesova, Jana; Shirley, Mary | 2001/03 |
Financial Crises| WPS3716 | Trade credit and bank credit : evidence from recent financial crises | Love, Inessa; Preve, Lorenzo A.; Sarria-Allende, Virginia | 2005/09 | | WDP428 | Managing the real and fiscal effects of banking crises | Klingbiel, Daniela; Laeven, Luc [editors]; Claesens, Stijn; Honohan, Patrick; Caprio, Gerard | 2002/01 | | WPS2571 | Stock market responses to bank restructuring policies during the East Asian crisis | Klingebiel, Daniela; Kroszner, Randy; Laeven, Luc; van Oijen, Pieter | 2001/03 | | WPS2441 | Controlling the fiscal costs of banking crises | Honohan, Patrick; Klingebiel, Daniela | 2000/09 | | WPS2284 | The use of asset management companies in the resolution of banking crises - cross-country experience | Klingebiel, Daniela | 2000/02 | | 19931 | How to accelerate corporate and financial sector restructuring in East Asia | Claessens, Stijn; Djankov, Simeon; Klingebiel, Daniela | 1999/11 | | WPS2188 | Financial liberalization and the capital account : Thailand, 1988-97 | Alba, Pedro; Hernandez, Leonardo; Klingebiel, Daniela | 1999/09 | | WPS1620 | Bank insolvencies : cross-country experience | Caprio, Gerard Jr.; Klingebiel, Daniela | 1996/07 |
Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial DistressAccess to Finance| WPS3716 | Trade credit and bank credit : evidence from recent financial crises | Love, Inessa; Preve, Lorenzo A.; Sarria-Allende, Virginia | 2005/09 | | WPS3665 | Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery | Gine, Xavier; Klonner, Stefan | 2005/07 | | WPS3639 | Finances of Egyptian listed firms | Love, Inessa | 2005/06 | | WPS3593 | The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises | Klapper, Leora | 2005/05 | | WPS3502 | Access to capital in rural Thailand : an estimated model of formal versus informal credit | Gine, Xavier | 2005/02 | | WPS3476 | Firm financing in India: recent trends and factors | Love, Inessa; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad | 2005/01 | | 30493 | Financial sector policy and the poor: selected findings and issues | Honohan, Patrick | 2004/09 | | WPS3342 | Financing small and medium-size enterprises with factoring: global growth and its potential in eastern Europe | Bakker, Marie-Renee; Klapper, Leora; Udell, Gregory F. | 2004/06 | | WPS3317 | Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision | Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Love, Inessa; Maksimovic, Vojislav | 2004/05 | | WPS3319 | Financial development and growth in the short and long run | Fisman, Raymond; Love, Inessa | 2004/05 |
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