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    Title: Essays on the Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms  Author(s): VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya  Author(s): ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun; SENBET, Lemma; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Financial Intermediation, Markets, and Alternative Financial Sectors  Author(s): ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: The Determinants of Corporate Risk in Emerging Markets: An Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis  Author(s): CAVALLO, Eduardo A.; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This Study explores the determinants of corporate bond spreads in emerging markets economics. Using a largely unexploited data set, the paper finds that corporate bond spreads are determined by firm-specific variables, ...