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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
Mel, Suresh de; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801015
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2016
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009310
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845512
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Micro-Equity for Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889427
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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
Bruhn, Miriam - 2017
The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974218
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Macroinsurance for microenterprises : a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J. - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 13-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637165
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Micro-equity for microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152000
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759730
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
Mel, Suresh de (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760258