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Leora Klapper

Lead Economist

 

LEORA KLAPPER is a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Since joining the Bank as a Young Economist in 1998, she has published on entrepreneurship, access to finance, corporate governance, bankruptcy, and risk management. Her current research focuses on entrepreneurship and household finance, and measurements of financial inclusion.  Prior to coming to the Bank she worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Bank of Israel, and Salomon Smith Barney. She holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from New York University Stern School of Business.

Contact information: Research@worldbank.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


World Bank working papers and publications

1 .Financial inclusion and legal discrimination against women : evidence from developing countries
2 .The foundations of financial inclusion : understanding ownership and use of formal accounts
3 .Incentivizing calculated risk-taking :evidence from an experiment with commercial bank loan officers
4 .Financial inclusion in Africa : an overview
5 .Measuring financial inclusion : the Global Findex Database
6 .Financial literacy and the financial crisis
7 .Financing businesses in Africa : the role of microfinance
8 .Financial literacy and retirement planning : the Russian case
9 .Patterns of business creation, survival and growth : evidence from Africa
10 .Trade credit contracts
11 .The impact of business environment reforms on new firm registration
12 .The challenges of bankruptcy reform
13 .The impact of the financial crisis on new firm registration
14 .Trade credit contracts
15 .The impact of the business environment on the business creation process
16 .Market power and the matching of trade credit terms
17 .Taxation and capital structure : evidence from a transition economy
18 .Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries
19 .A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
20 .Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership
21 .The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises
22 .American Depositary Receipts (ADR) holdings of U.S. based emerging market funds
23 .A survey of government regulation and intervention in financial markets
24 .Financing small and medium-size enterprises with factoring: global growth and its potential in eastern Europe
25 .Business environment and firm entry : Evidence from international data
26 .Further evidence on the link between finance and growth : an international analysis of community banking and economic performance
27 .Ownership structure and initial public offerings
28 .Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors
29 .The global growth of mutual funds
30 .Small and medium size enterprise financing in Eastern Europe
31 .Bankruptcy around the world - explanations of its relative use
32 .Corporate governance, investor protection, and performance in emerging markets
33 .The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses
34 .Exchange rate risk management : evidence from East Asia
35 .The uniqueness of short-term collateralization
36 .Resolution of corporate distress - evidence from East Asia's financial crisis




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