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Measurement and determinants of access to loans
Hainz, Christa; Nabokin, Tatjana - 2013
limitations perception-based indicators or approximations of access to finance by the usage of finance are often used …, disregarding firm-specific differences in the demand for external finance. Using unique firm-level survey data, which provide … for future survey design. -- access to finance ; usage of finance ; credit demand, perceived access to finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728261
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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332125
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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … medium enterprises, possibly, because in large firms borrowing is a less essential source of finance. An important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610923
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153886
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On modes of economic governance
Dixit, Avinash K. - 2001
I consider transactions involving asymmetric prisoners dilemmas between pairs of players selected chosen from two large populations. Games are played repeatedly, but information about cheating is not adequate to sustain cooperation, and there is no official legal system of contract enforcement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400856
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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2011
The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124151
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The political economy of liberal democracy
Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2017 - Revised March 2017
We distinguish between three sets of rights - property rights, political rights, and civil rights - and provide a taxonomy of political regimes. The distinctive nature of liberal democracy is that it protects civil rights (equality before the law for minorities) in addition to the other two....
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The importance of geographic access for the impact of microfinance
Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Filer, Randall Keith; Hanousek, Jan - 2015
The geographic distance between a household and financial institutions may constitute a significant obstacle to achieving the benefits of modern financial institutions. We measure the impact of improved distance-related access to microcredits in Uzbekistan. Residents living closer to...
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017
We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602702
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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance
Süße, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138789