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author = "Valenzuela, Patricio"
Essays on the Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms
Author(s) :
VALENZUELA, Patricio
Description :
Since corporate investment is a key driver for economic growth, it is very important to find out what are the drivers of the cost of financing for private firms. In particular, this thesis studies the determinants of spreads of bonds issued by advanced and emerging market borrowers and the determina...
Repository :
European University Institute Institutional Repository - Cadmus
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English
Becoming an entrepreneur
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Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates pr...
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EconStor
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English
Becoming an entrepreneur
Description :
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates pro...
Repository :
EconStor
Language(s) :
English
The determinants of corporate risk in emerging markets: An option-adjusted spreads analysis
Description :
This study explores the determinants of corporate bond spreads in emerging markets economies. Using a largely unexploited dataset, the paper finds that corporate bond spreads are determined by firm-specific variables, bond characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, sovereign risk, and global factors...
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EconStor
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English
Debt sustainability under catastrophic risk: The case for government budget insurance
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Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of Belize's public finance to the occurrence of hurricanes and th...
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EconStor
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English
Financial Intermediation, Markets, and Alternative Financial Sectors
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We provide a comprehensive review of firms’ financing channels (internal and external, domestic and international) around the globe, with the focus on alternative finance—financing from all the nonmarket, non-bank external sources. We argue that while traditional financing channels, including financ...
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European University Institute Institutional Repository - Cadmus
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English
Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya
Author(s) :
ALLEN, Franklin
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CARLETTI, Elena
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CULL, Robert
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QIAN, Jun
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SENBET, Lemma
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VALENZUELA, Patricio
Description :
With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important for b...
Repository :
European University Institute Institutional Repository - Cadmus
Language(s) :
English
Characterization of Genomic Island 3 and Genetic Variability of Chilean Field Strains of Brucella abortus▿
Author(s) :
Céspedes, Sandra
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Salgado, Paulina
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Valenzuela, Patricio
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Vidal, Roberto
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Oñate, Angel A.
Description :
One of the capabilities developed by bacteria is the ability to gain large fragments of DNA from other bacteria or to lose portions of their own genomes. Among these exchangeable fragments are the genomic islands (GIs). Nine GIs have been identified in Brucella, and genomic island 3 (GI-3) is shared...
Repository :
Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) :
English
Distribution of Classical and Nonclassical Virulence Genes in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Isolates from Chilean Children and tRNA Gene Screening for Putative Insertion Sites for Genomic Islands▿†
Author(s) :
Del Canto, Felipe
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Valenzuela, Patricio
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Cantero, Lidia
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Bronstein, Jonathan
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Blanco, Jesús E.
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Blanco, Jorge
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Prado, Valeria
Description :
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea. Three adhesins (Tia, TibA, EtpA), an iron acquisition system (Irp1, Irp2, and FyuA), a GTPase (LeoA), and an autotransporter (EatA) are ETEC virulence-related proteins that, in contrast to the classical virulence factors (ent...
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Europe PubMed Central
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English
Genes Related to Long Polar Fimbriae of Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strains as Reliable Markers To Identify Virulent Isolates▿ †
Author(s) :
Torres, Alfredo G.
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Blanco, Miguel
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Valenzuela, Patricio
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Slater, Terry M.
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Patel, Shilpa D.
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Dahbi, Ghizlane
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López, Cecilia
Description :
Lpf (stands for long polar fimbriae) is one of the few adhesive factors of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with colonization of the intestine. E. coli O157:H7 strains possess two lpf loci encoding highly regulated fimbrial structures. Database analysis of the genes encoding the...
Repository :
Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) :
English