Browsing by Author "Barth, James"

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Does Rating Help Microfinance Institutions Raise Funds? A Cross-Country Analysis of the Role of Rating Agency Assessments in Microfinance Industry

Wang, Qianfei (2007-12-15)

This thesis studies whether rating assessments help MFIs raise more funds, using a sample of 315 MFIs operating in 63 countries worldwide during the period of 1999-2005. The main conclusion is that there is no strong ...

Essays on Applied International Economics and Finance

Resiandini, Pramesti (2011-04-06)

Studies in international economics and finance have become increasingly important in understanding the ways economies are integrated. This dissertation comprises three essays on this topic. The first essay investigates ...

Essays on Banking and Housing

Xu, Jiayi (2021-04-15) ETD File Embargoed

In 1865, the first minority bank in the United States was established. Over time, banks owned or controlled by minorities have grown in number. Yet, one hundred and fifty years later, they still account for only 2.8 percent ...

Essays on Financial Institutions and Financial Stability

Sun, Yanfei (2019-04-09)

This dissertation is composed of three essays related to financial institutions and financial stability. The first essay constructs a measure of integration among global banks and examines its impact on bank insolvencies ...

Essays on Forecasting in Finance

Burson, Jonathan (2021-07-22) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation is composed of three essays related to forecasting in various financial markets. The first essay reviews over 60 studies published from 2008 to 2021 that investigate the causes of the mortgage crisis ...

Scale Economies in MFIs Abroad and Comparable U.S. Financial Institutions

James, Natalie (2010-04-22)

The three essays of this dissertation employ a system of seemingly unrelated equations, each with a cost function and production input equations to determine the scale or point of production along the long-run average total ...

Three Essays on Banking, Digital Finance, and Financial Inclusion.

Nguyen, Thi Hong Nguyen (2021-07-12)

The first essay examines how financial literacy affects household choice as being banked only, underbanked, or unbanked. Also, the relationship between financial literacy and household use and frequency of use of different ...

Three Essays on Financial Institutions and Markets

Joo, Sunghoon (2019-04-26)

In chapter 1, given the financial troubles facing state pension plans in recent years, we examine determinants of the ratio of assets to liabilities, or the funded ratio, based on data for 153 pension plans from 2001 to ...

What Determines The Foreign Ownership Share of A Country's Banking Assets?

Liang, Ping (2008-12-15)

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is an important new element in the international framework that affects the regulation of the financial sector of every World Trade Organization (WTO) member and all potential ...