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Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 429
Citations - 85435
Asli Demirguc-Kunt is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial intermediary & Access to finance. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 429 publications receiving 78166 citations. Previous affiliations of Asli Demirguc-Kunt include George Washington University & Boston College.
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Law, finance, and firm growth
TL;DR: Demirgut-Kunt and Maksimovic as mentioned in this paper investigated how differences in legal and financial systems affect firms' use of external financing to fund growth and found that firms in countries with well-functioning institutions have lower profit rates.
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Capital Structures in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This article analyzed the capital structure choices of firms in 10 developing countries and provided evidence that these decisions are affected by the same variables as in developed countries, indicating that specific country factors are at work.
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Financial and Legal Constraints to Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effect of financial, legal, and corruption problems on firms' growth rates and find that it is consistently the smallest firms that are most constrained.
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Determinants of Commercial Bank Interest Margins and Profitability: Some International Evidence
TL;DR: Demirguc-Kunt and Huizinga as discussed by the authors used bank data for 80 countries for 1988-95 and found that differences in interest margins and bank profitability reflect various determinants: bank characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, existing financial structure and taxation, regulation, and other institutional factors.
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Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint
Thorsten Beck,Asli Demirguc-Kunt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present recent research on access to finance by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and show that small firms face larger growth constraints and have less access to formal sources of external finance, potentially explaining the lack of SMEs' contribution to growth.