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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Income mobility of owners of small businesses when boundaries between occupations are vague

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2009

Ownership of small businesses can facilitate upward mobility through the income hierarchy and help individuals maintain a place at the higher end of the income distribution hierarchy. This paper compares the positional stability of owners of small businesses with that of wage earners, arguing...

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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 …

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The impacts of Covid-19 on racial inequality in business earnings

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023

Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...

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Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly

Nese, Gjermund (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2005

We study a policy game between exporting and importing countries in vertically linked industries. In a successive international Cournot oligopoly, we analyse incentives for using tax instruments strategically to shift rents vertically, between exporting and importing countries, and horizontally,...

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Outsourcing without cost advantages

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2023

This paper explores why competing firms can choose to outsource to an external common supplier that does not have a cost advantage in input production. The supplier, through its contract offers, manages to generate asymmetry, to alter product market competition, and to extract profits from the...

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