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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
network even among its members. Because all projects have positive net value, it is efficient to finance them even in the …
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Pages, Carmen; Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762082
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries about the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers’ answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...
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Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
Cardinale, Mirko; Orszag, Mike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt …
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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