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Accessing Commercial Capital Markets, Isaac H. Smith, Michael A. Broderick, Richard G. Winsor Sep 2007

Accessing Commercial Capital Markets, Isaac H. Smith, Michael A. Broderick, Richard G. Winsor

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.


From Ngo To Mfi: A Guidebook For Successful Transformations, Geetha Rao Ramani Sep 2007

From Ngo To Mfi: A Guidebook For Successful Transformations, Geetha Rao Ramani

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

Ledgerwood and White's Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor was published by World Bank Publications in August 2006.


Trade-Offs Between Social And Financial Performance, Gary Woller Sep 2007

Trade-Offs Between Social And Financial Performance, Gary Woller

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

True or False: Trade-offs occur between social performance and financial performance in microfinance. Conventional wisdom says true. Extending formal financial services to poor and hard-to-reach clientele necessarily entails higher costs and lower per unit returns and is, subsequently, harder to scale up. The trade-off inherent in this relationship creates incentives for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to move up-market and away from their traditional poor clientele—a phenomenon known as mission drift.


Center News, Esr Review Sep 2007

Center News, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter, Esr Review Sep 2007

End Matter, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 09 No. 2 Esr Review, Esr Review Sep 2007

Vol. 09 No. 2 Esr Review, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.


The State Of The Region: Hampton Roads 2007, James V. Koch, Vinod Agarwal, John R. Broderick, Christopher B. Colburn, Vicky Curtis, Steve Daniel, Susan Hughes, Elizabeth Janik, Feng Lian, Sharon Lomax, Trish Manthey, Janet Molinaro, Ken Plum, Maurice Seaton, Lowell Singh, Qian Sun Sep 2007

The State Of The Region: Hampton Roads 2007, James V. Koch, Vinod Agarwal, John R. Broderick, Christopher B. Colburn, Vicky Curtis, Steve Daniel, Susan Hughes, Elizabeth Janik, Feng Lian, Sharon Lomax, Trish Manthey, Janet Molinaro, Ken Plum, Maurice Seaton, Lowell Singh, Qian Sun

Economics Faculty Books

This is Old Dominion University's eighth annual State of the Region report. While it represents the work of many people connected in various ways to the university, the report does not constitute an official viewpoint of Old Dominion or it's president, Roseann Runte. The report maintains the goal of stimulating thought and discussion that ultimately will make Hampton Roads an even better place to live. We are proud of our region's many successes, but realize that it is possible to improve our performance. In order to do so, we must have accurate information about "where we are" and a sound …


Emerging Industries: Looking Beyond The Usual Suspects: A Report To Wired, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts Sep 2007

Emerging Industries: Looking Beyond The Usual Suspects: A Report To Wired, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts

Reports

No abstract provided.


Deposit Insurance And Moral Hazard: Capital, Risk, Malfeasance, And Mismanagement. A Comment On ‘Deposit Insurance And Moral Hazard: Evidence From Texas Banking During The 1920s, Gary Richardson Aug 2007

Deposit Insurance And Moral Hazard: Capital, Risk, Malfeasance, And Mismanagement. A Comment On ‘Deposit Insurance And Moral Hazard: Evidence From Texas Banking During The 1920s, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

A Journal of Economic History article by Linda Hooks and Kenneth Robinson, “Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Texas Banking During the 1920s,” contains a contradiction (Hooks and Robinson 2002). Pondering the contradiction in the paper reveals insights that the authors may have overlooked. Hooks and Robinson’s article examines the experience of the banking industry in Texas during the 1920s. Texas operated a deposit-insurance system from January 1, 1910 until February 11, 1927. Deposit insurance was mandatory for all state banks, which were given the choice of two plans in which to participate. The preponderance participated in the depositors …


Check Is In The Mail: Correspondent Clearing And The Banking Panics Of The Great Depression, Gary Richardson Aug 2007

Check Is In The Mail: Correspondent Clearing And The Banking Panics Of The Great Depression, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

Weaknesses within the check-clearing system played a hitherto unrecognized role in the banking crises of the Great Depression. Correspondent check-clearing networks were vulnerable to counter-party cascades. Accounting conventions that overstated reserves available to corresponding institutions may have exacerbated the situation. The initial banking panic began when a correspondent network centered in Nashville collapsed, forcing over 100 institutions to suspend operations. As the contraction continued, additional correspondent systems imploded. The vulnerability of correspondent networks is one reason that banks that cleared via correspondents failed at higher rates than other institutions during the Great Depression.


Comments On The Fcc’S Proposed Competitive Bidding Procedures For Auction 73, Peter Cramton, Gregory Rosston, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Robert Wilson Aug 2007

Comments On The Fcc’S Proposed Competitive Bidding Procedures For Auction 73, Peter Cramton, Gregory Rosston, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Robert Wilson

Peter Cramton

No abstract provided.


Financial Portfolio Strategy: Application To College Of Southwest, Grace S. Thomson Aug 2007

Financial Portfolio Strategy: Application To College Of Southwest, Grace S. Thomson

Dr. Grace S. Thomson

Financial Portfolio Strategy Creating value in the organization is the cornerstone of business activity. Value-creation is a concept that has evolved for the past fifty years, stimulating the generation of theories, techniques, models and institutions (Slater and Zwirlein, 1996). Financial markets have developed in response to the dynamic corporate activity, providing different options of financing and investment. Financial decision-making at the executive level becomes critical in the creation of wealth in the organization, and the financial strategies designed by the Top Management Team (TMT) are expected to seek beyond profit maximization (Lankau et al, 2007; Myers, 2001). However, there are …


Shipping Economic Analysis Of Enlargement For Containership To Maersk Ae10, Xiaodi Chen Aug 2007

Shipping Economic Analysis Of Enlargement For Containership To Maersk Ae10, Xiaodi Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Strategic Research On The Construction Of Tianjin Northern International Shipping Center, Zongna Li Aug 2007

Strategic Research On The Construction Of Tianjin Northern International Shipping Center, Zongna Li

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Analysis Of The Bullwhip Effect In Chinese Medicine Supply Chain, Haiming Zhu Aug 2007

The Analysis Of The Bullwhip Effect In Chinese Medicine Supply Chain, Haiming Zhu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Analysis Of Regional Logistics Capacity And Enterprise Performance-Bengbu And Bbca Group Analysis, Liang Liu Aug 2007

The Analysis Of Regional Logistics Capacity And Enterprise Performance-Bengbu And Bbca Group Analysis, Liang Liu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Metropolitan Report - August 2007, Division Of Business And Economic Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of New Orleans Aug 2007

Metropolitan Report - August 2007, Division Of Business And Economic Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of New Orleans

UNO Metropolitan Report

No abstract provided.


Possible Design For A Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System, Peter Cramton Aug 2007

Possible Design For A Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

No abstract provided.


Colombia’S Forward Energy Market, Peter Cramton Aug 2007

Colombia’S Forward Energy Market, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

This paper presents a market design for Colombia’s forward energy market, which is scheduled to began in 2008. The forward energy market is an organized market to procure energy for electricity customers on a forward basis. It includes both the regulated market (residential and other small customers) and the nonregulated market (large customers). Currently, regulated customers represent 68% of the total electricity demand and nonregulated customers represent the remaining 32%. The proposed design is novel in that it integrates both the regulated and nonregulated customers into a single organized market. Although the regulated and nonregulated energy products remain distinct, their …


Generation Next Utep Student Body Survey, Daniel J. Quiñones, Dennis L. Soden Aug 2007

Generation Next Utep Student Body Survey, Daniel J. Quiñones, Dennis L. Soden

IPED Technical Reports

In 2007, the Institute for Policy and Economic Development (IPED) at the University of Texas at El Paso was contracted by the City of El Paso to conduct a survey of UTEP student attitudes and perceptions pertaining to the city’s future and general quality of life issues in El Paso. Specific to the goals of the survey was to determine areas of focus for targeting improvements in the quality of life for the survey population in order to retain more UTEP graduates.


Fort Hancock, Texas: Compilation Of Iped Technical Reports, John Bretting, Sergio Pena , Philip Boyd, Juan Carlos Gomez, Daniel J. Quiñones, Lisa Tomaka, Christopher Villa Aug 2007

Fort Hancock, Texas: Compilation Of Iped Technical Reports, John Bretting, Sergio Pena , Philip Boyd, Juan Carlos Gomez, Daniel J. Quiñones, Lisa Tomaka, Christopher Villa

IPED Technical Reports

This is a compilation of IPED Technical Reports: 2005-3, 2005-4, 2005-5, and 2007-7.


To Trust Or To Monitor: A Dynamic Analysis, Fali Huang Aug 2007

To Trust Or To Monitor: A Dynamic Analysis, Fali Huang

Research Collection School Of Economics

In a principal-agent framework, principals can mitigate moral hazard problems not only through extrinsic incentives such as monitoring, but also through agents’ intrinsic trustworthiness. Their relative usage, however, changes over time and varies across societies. This paper attempts to explain this phenomenon by endogenizing agent trustworthiness as a response to potential returns. When monitoring becomes relatively cheaper over time, agents acquire lower trustworthiness, which may actually drive up the overall governance cost in society. Across societies, those giving employees lower weights in choosing governance methods tend to have higher monitoring intensities and lower trust. These results are consistent with the …


Burnout And Perceived Organisational Support Among Frontline Hospitality Employees, Gabrielle Walters, Michael Raybould Jul 2007

Burnout And Perceived Organisational Support Among Frontline Hospitality Employees, Gabrielle Walters, Michael Raybould

Michael Raybould

This article describes research designed to investigate the relationship between burnout and perceived organisational support (POS) among front-line hospitality employees. Three hundred front-line employees of a multisite hospitality firm were surveyed using an instrument comprising the general survey version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the 17-item version of the Survey of Perceived Organisational Support (POS). Significant relationships were found between POS and each of the three burnout dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism and personal efficacy. The findings of this study contribute to the existing academic literature and provide hospitality managers with a better understanding of the factors that contribute to …


Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton Jul 2007

Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Affidavit arguing that HQ manipulated the NYISO TCC and day-ahead energy markets. On behalf of DC Energy, LLC.


Economist Letter To Ntia On 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction, Peter Cramton, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Simon Wilkie, Robert Wilson Jul 2007

Economist Letter To Ntia On 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction, Peter Cramton, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Simon Wilkie, Robert Wilson

Peter Cramton

As the 700 MHz auction approaches, we are writing to clear up a common misconception about the nature of spectrum auctions and the impact of various rules on auction revenues.


Essential Entry: Revenues In The 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction, Peter Cramton Jul 2007

Essential Entry: Revenues In The 700 Mhz Spectrum Auction, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

A common misconception is that an open access provision on a sliver of the 700 MHz spectrum would reduce auction revenues. In fact, the open access, wholesale, and bidding credit provisions put forth by Frontline Wireless, will motivate new entry, enhance competition in the auction, and raise revenues.


St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 9, No. 2, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald Jul 2007

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 9, No. 2, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.


Water Walls: An Effective Option For High Performance Buildings, David A. Bainbridge Jul 2007

Water Walls: An Effective Option For High Performance Buildings, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

Water wall thermal mass has been proven over the last 40 years on a wide range of residential and commercial projects in temperate and cold climates. It provides better thermal comfort and more efficient energy transfer at reasonable cost.


United Way El Paso - Chico Partners Focus Group Report, John Bretting, Lisa Tomaka, Christopher Villa Jul 2007

United Way El Paso - Chico Partners Focus Group Report, John Bretting, Lisa Tomaka, Christopher Villa

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Fort Hancock, Texas Capital Improvement Report, Sergio Pena , John Bretting, Daniel J. Quiñones, Christopher Villa Jul 2007

Fort Hancock, Texas Capital Improvement Report, Sergio Pena , John Bretting, Daniel J. Quiñones, Christopher Villa

IPED Technical Reports

This report follows up to the research background technical report #2005-03 (http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/iped_techrep/62/, The Institute for Policy and Economic Development, requested by The Rio Grande Council of Governments (RGCOG).