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title: Access to Finance Bureaucracy and Capital Allocation Efficiency
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4605203/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4605203
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4605203
featured: 2023-10-18
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Access to Finance Bureaucracy and Capital Allocation Efficiency

The research explores capital allocation efficiency in developing countries, revealing that factors like limited finance access, bureaucracy, information asymmetry, and gender inequality obstruct efficient capital allocation.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4605203
- Identifier: SSRN 4605203
- Released: 2021-03-17
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 22 (2023-10-18): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-10-18/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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