Francesca de Nicola

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What Do We Know About the Relationship between Access to Finance and International Trade?

FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2012-054B
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2013
Silvio Contessi and Francesca de Nicola
Monash Business School - Department of Banking and Finance and World Bank
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international trade, export margins, credit constraints, access to finance

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Co-Movement of Major Commodity Price Returns: Time-Series Assessment

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6845
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel A. Hernandez
World Bank, Pomona College - Department of Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Crops and Crop Management Systems, Energy Production and Transportation, Markets and Market Access, Emerging Markets, Food & Beverage Industry

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The Impact of Weather Insurance on Consumption, Investment, and Welfare

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Nov 2012
Francesca de Nicola
World Bank
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Weather insurance, welfare, consumption, investment, technology adoption

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International Trade, Female Labor, and Entrepreneurship in MENA Countries

FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2012-053C
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2014
Silvio Contessi, Francesca de Nicola and Li Li
Monash Business School - Department of Banking and Finance, World Bank and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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Comparative Advantage, Factor Intensities, Female Labor Participation, Entrepreneurship, brain based technological bias

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Co-Movement of Major Commodity Price Returns: A Time-Series Assessment

IFPRI Discussion Paper 01354
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Aug 2014
Francesca de Nicola, Pierangelo De Pace and Manuel A. Hernandez
World Bank, Pomona College - Department of Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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co-movement, Commodities, Economic models, markets, Prices, time-series models

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The Impact of Weather Insurance on Consumption, Investment, and Welfare

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Nov 2012
Francesca de Nicola
World Bank
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Weather insurance, consumption, investment, welfare, technology adoption

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Handling the Weather: Insurance, Savings, and Credit in West Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7187
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Francesca de Nicola
World Bank
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Rural Finance, Science of Climate Change, Climate Change and Environment, Climate Change and Health

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How Accurate are Recall Data? Evidence from Coastal India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6009
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Francesca de Nicola and Xavier Giné
World Bank and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Access to Finance, Statistical & Mathematical Sciences, Educational Sciences, Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Economic Theory & Research

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The Financial Costs of the U.S.-China Trade Tensions: Evidence from East Asian Stock Markets

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9068
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2019
Francesca de Nicola, Martin Dov Alfred Kessler and Ha Nguyen
World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
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Political Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Transition Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8956
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Aug 2019
Maurizio Bussolo, Francesca de Nicola, Ugo Panizza and Richard Varghese
World Bank - Chief Economist Office for Europe and Central Asia, World Bank, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - Department of Economics and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Economics and Finance of Public Institution Development, State Owned Enterprise Reform, Economic Theory & Research, Economic Growth, Industrial Economics, Financial Regulation & Supervision, De Facto Governments, Public Sector Administrative & Civil Service Reform, Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform, Administrative & Civil Service Reform, Democratic Government, Armed Conflict

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Insuring against Droughts: Evidence on Agricultural Intensification and Index Insurance Demand from a Randomized Evaluation in Rural Bangladesh

IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1630
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Apr 2017
Ruth Vargas Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija, Francesca de Nicola, David J. Spielman and Patrick Ward
World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia, Agriculture, Investment, Risk Management, Insurance, Risk, Weather Hazards, Drought, Weather, Climate, Price Elasticities, Price Formation, Inputs, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Irrigation, Pesticides, Crops, Yields, Smallholders, Index Insurance, Risk and Uncertainty

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Firms'Export Decisions: Demand Trumps Financial Shocks

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7953
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2019
Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Weiming Tan
World Bank and Independent
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International Trade and Trade Rules, Trade and Services, Common Carriers Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Pulp & Paper Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, General Manufacturing, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Construction Industry, Transport Services, Early Child and Children & #39, Early Child and Children's Health, Reproductive Health

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Foreign Banks and Trade: Bridging the Information Gap?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7967
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Feb 2017
Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Weiming Tan
World Bank and Independent
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International Trade and Trade Rules

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High-Growth Firms: Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8642
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2018
Francesca de Nicola, Balazs Murakozy and Shawn W. Tan
World Bank, Institute of Econimics, CERS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and World Bank
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General Manufacturing, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, Common Carriers Industry, Construction Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, Pulp & Paper Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Private Sector Economics, Marketing, Private Sector Development Law, Labor Markets, Rural Labor Markets

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On the Allocation of Resources in Developing East Asia and Pacific

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8634
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2018
Francesca de Nicola, Vera Vencheva Kehayova and Ha Thi Hong Nguyen
World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
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Political Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14126
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Maurizio Bussolo, Francesca de Nicola, Ugo Panizza and Richard Varghese
World Bank - Chief Economist Office for Europe and Central Asia, World Bank, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - Department of Economics and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Corruption, Financial constraints, investment, Political Connections