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Gendered access to finance : the role of team formation, idea quality, and implementation constraints in business evaluations

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … an additional benefit of equalizing access to finance and ultimately stimulating growth. …

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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023

This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...

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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … medium enterprises, possibly, because in large firms borrowing is a less essential source of finance. An important policy …

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Sources of finance and growth

Marjit, Sugata; Pranab Kumar Das - 2024

The paper provides an analysis of the simultaneous existence of the formal and the informal sources of finance and …, viz. formal banking sector with lower interest rate with finance constraint and an informal credit market with a higher … the informal source of finance easily the growth rate could have been lower. The premium associated with the differential …

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Do firms mitigate or magnify capital misallocation? : evidence from planet-level data

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017

Almost two thirds of the cross-plant dispersion in marginal revenue products of capital occurs across plants within the same firm rather than between firms. Even though firms allocate invest- ment very differently across their plants, they do not equalize marginal revenue products across their...

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Legal institutions, innovation and growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...

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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2011

The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...

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Think locally, act locally : spillovers, spillbacks, and efficient decentralized policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru (contributor); Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2007

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2007

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Statute law or case law?

Anderlini, Luca (contributor); Felli, Leonardo (contributor) - 2008

In a Case Law regime Courts have more flexibility than in a Statute Law regime. Since Statutes are inevitably incomplete, this confers an advantage to the Statute Law regime over the Case Law one. However, all Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are already taken. Therefore, the...

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