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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017
implication of our findings is that discrimination in the capital market spills over to the labour market, leading to the …
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Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling : evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2015
Increased diversity in the workforce can lead to either more or less discrimination. We study discrimination among … the candidates, but does not reduce the amount of discrimination. The boot camp provides an ideal setting for studying …
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … transfers to providers. -- discrimination ; dynamic procurement ; local versus global firms ; learning-by-doing …
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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 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 …
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All you need is cash : corporate cash holdings and investment after the global financial crisis
Joseph, Andreas; Kneer, Christiane; Horen, Neeltje van - 2021
Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis but also during the recovery period. Cash-rich SMEs could maintain their capital stock during the global financial crisis, while cash-poor rivals reduced theirs. This gave...
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Racial disparities in access to small business credit : evidence from the paycheck protection program
Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - 2021
, pointing to a potential role for discrimination in explaining some of the racial disparities in small business lending. We find …
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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 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...
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Marketplace lending of SMEs
Cumming, Douglas J.; Hornuf, Lars - 2020
absent in these markets. We introduce a dataset of 414 SME marketplace loans and 8,236 online loan days to test these …
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Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Maslov, Egor; Sørensen, Bent E. - 2019
Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...
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Local capital scarcity and small firm growth : evidence from real estate booms in China
Hau, Harald; Ouyang, Difei - 2019
In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
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