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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480290
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460338
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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
Schaner, Simone - 2016
-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates … directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456145
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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia
Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Yet while reaching millions, recent randomized evaluations suggest limited average business impacts. Critics often blame contract rigidity, specifically the fixed and frequent installments, for the lack of...
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The roles of immigrants and foreign students in US science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Ganguli, Ina (ed.); Kahn, Shulamit Beth (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research / Workshop <2018, … - 2020
and Chungeun Yoon --III. Immigration and entrepreneurship.Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high … STEM PhDs /Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé --II. Immigration policy and innovation.High-skill immigration, innovation, and … the links between immigration policy in determining who can come into the country and the rate of innovation among …
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'Schemes of Practical Utility' : Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among 'Great Inventors' in the United States, 1790-1865
Khan, B. Zorina - 1992
The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories through 1865 indicates that these 'great inventors'...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector
Popp, David - 2020
documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter …
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The role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic growth
Andrews, Michael Jeffrey (ed.); Chatterji, Aaron (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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