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Do Employee Spinoffs Learn Markets from Their Parents? Evidence from International Trade
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E. - 2021
It is well established that employee spinoffs learn their parents’ technologies, but little is known about their demand-side learning. We exploit the identification in international trade data of parent markets (countries) to investigate whether exporting employee spinoffs of exporting parents...
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor - individual entrepreneurs - plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Entrepreneurship, Organization Capital and the Evolution of the Firm
Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs : The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
de la Torre, Augusto - 2009
foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159698
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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing : An Econometric Study
Facanha, Luis Otavio - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110414
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 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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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
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Conservatism correction for the market-to-book ratio and Tobin's q
McNichols, Maureen; Rajan, Madhav V.; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2014
We decompose the market-to-book ratio into two additive components: a conservatism correction factor and a future-to-book ratio. The conservatism correction factor exceeds the benchmark value of one whenever the accounting for past transactions has been subject to an (unconditional) conservatism...
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Heterogeneous Firms in a Product Fragmentation World
Gao, Yue - 2013
This paper analyses the ways in which product fragmentation (producing part of a product in one country, and a part elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains can be internationally and arbitrarily fragmented....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082006
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor - individual entrepreneurs - plays a large role in affecting firm performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281