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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms
Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010
and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981984
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610923
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937587
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476678
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Business decision-making under uncertainty : evidence from employment and number of businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2013
Using the framework provided by the asymmetric-information and real-options theories, we examine the impact of uncertainty on firms' decisions and market outcomes. We construct alternative measures of uncertainty based on survey of professional forecasters and our estimation of regression-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764986
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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2014
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regression-based forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428770
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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Information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2024
We study the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. Guided by a parsimonious model …. We present evidence consistent with banks’ IT adoption spurring entrepreneurship through a collateral channel …: entrepreneurship increases by more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. Further analysis suggests that IT improves banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048384
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Firm-to-firm relationships and price rigidity : theory and evidence
Heise, Sebastian - 2016
Economists have long suspected that firm-to-firm relationships might increase price rigidity due to the use of explicit … older versus newly formed relationships. Based on additional stylized facts about a relationship's life cycle and interviews … the average length of relationships in the economy - e.g., in a recession, when the share of young relationships declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569630
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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm
Oshima, Atsushi (contributor); Ravikumar, B. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647270