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Leora Klapper

Senior Economist
LEORA KLAPPER is a Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Since joining the Bank in 1998 as a Young Economist, her research and operational work has focused on SME and corporate access toﾠfinancing, corporate governance, and bankruptcy and risk management. She has also participated inﾠﾠFinancial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAPs) inﾠmany regions.ﾠ 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 CV Selected Works Financial Research website ﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠﾠ

World Bank working papers and publications

1 .	The impact of the business environment on the business creation process
2 .	Market power and the matching of trade credit terms
3 .	Taxation and capital structure : evidence from a transition economy
4 .	Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries
5 .	A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
6 .	Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership
7 .	The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises
8 .	American Depositary Receipts (ADR) holdings of U.S. based emerging market funds
9 .	A survey of government regulation and intervention in financial markets
10 .	Financing small and medium-size enterprises with factoring: global growth and its potential in eastern Europe
11 .	Business environment and firm entry : Evidence from international data
12 .	Further evidence on the link between finance and growth : an international analysis of community banking and economic performance
13 .	Ownership structure and initial public offerings
14 .	Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors
15 .	The global growth of mutual funds
16 .	Small and medium size enterprise financing in Eastern Europe
17 .	Bankruptcy around the world - explanations of its relative use
18 .	Corporate governance, investor protection, and performance in emerging markets
19 .	The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses
20 .	Exchange rate risk management : evidence from East Asia
21 .	The uniqueness of short-term collateralization
22 .	Resolution of corporate distress - evidence from East Asia's financial crisis

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