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Local networks and new business formation
Füner, Lena; Berger, Marius; Bersch, Johannes; … - 2023
New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region’s attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the...
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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996
Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution : evidence from France.
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2012
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Firm size and the business environment : worldwide survey results
Schiffer, Mirjam - 2001
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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024
Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how...
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The Italian startup act : a microeconometric program evaluation
Biancalani, Francesco; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2020
This paper analyses the impact of the Italian Startup Act which entered into force in December 2012. This public policy provides a unique bundle of benefits, such as tax incentives, public loan guarantees, and a more flexible labor law, for firms registered as "innovative startups" in Italy....
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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of … delay between training and loans may reduce knowledge retention and application by SMEs in the presence of complementarity … practices. We find evidence for the latter in both intention-to-treat and treatment-on-the-treated estimates. While SMEs in both …
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Visibility of technology and cumulative innovation : evidence from trade secrets laws
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Reimers, Imke - 2019
We use exogenous variation in the strength of trade secrets protection to show that a relative weakening of patents (compared to trade secrets) has a disproportionately negative effect on the disclosure of processes - inventions that are not otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural...
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