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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - CESifo - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks’ lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms’ credit constraints at two...
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877680
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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mortgage Debt and Commitment
Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - CESifo - 2014
We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948829
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - CESifo - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721607
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - CESifo - 2013
spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723536
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Identity and Entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
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The Apple doesn't Fall far from the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775095
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - CESifo - 2013
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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