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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms

Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...

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Determinants of survival of newly created SMEs in the Brazilian manufacturing : an econometric study

Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 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...

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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020

In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...

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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, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...

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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023

This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...

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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … desire of governments to foster risky 'breakthrough' innovations. -- business taxation ; innovation ; market entry …

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Group contests with complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...

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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019

We study whether employment history provides information about a worker's "work attitude," i.e., the tendency to act cooperatively and reliably in the workplace. We conjecture that, holding all else equal, frequent job changes can indicate poor work attitude and that this information is...

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Relative performance feedback to teams

Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects...

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