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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
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Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The United States is one of the few countries that does not guarantee paid family leave (PFL) to workers. Proposals for PFL legislation are often met with opposition from employer organizations, who fear disruptions to business, especially among small employers. But there has been limited data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696395
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481136
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496161
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Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice
Hurst, Erik G. - 2015
, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this … occupational choice. This choice yields several important results: (1) entrepreneurship can be thought of as a normal good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457025
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Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship
Bassetto, Marco - 2013
We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly and rely heavily on retained earnings to expand the size of their business in this set-up, we show that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459365
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Applications or Approvals : What Drives Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program?
Chernenko, Sergey; Kaplan, Nathan; Sarkar, Asani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55% of this take-up disparity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250189
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Entrepreneurship, business and economics : proceedings of the 15th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference; Vol. 2
Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin (ed.); Danis, Hakan (ed.) - Eurasia Business and Economics Society. / Conference - 2016
Intro -- Preface -- Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) -- Contents -- Part I: Accounting and Corporate Governance -- The Value Relevance of Audit Report Under IFRS in the Case of Romanian Listed Companies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Hypotheses Development -- 3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014021806
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Entrepreneurship, business and economics : proceedings of the 15th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference; Vol. 1
Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin (ed.); Danis, Hakan (ed.) - Eurasia Business and Economics Society. / Conference - 2016
Intro -- Preface -- Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) -- Contents -- Part I: Entrepreneurship and Small and …-Driven Economies Under the Shadow of a Fina... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Psychology of Entrepreneurship -- 3 The Cognitive Psychology … of Entrepreneurship -- 3.1 Opportunities Perception -- 4 Entrepreneurial Attitude and Behavior in Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014021957