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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534049
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Unawareness and selective disclosure : the effect of school quality information on property prices
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Hasan, Syed; Jha, Nikhil; … - 2016
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595222
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Hidden insurance in a moral hazard economy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2013
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006945
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Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports
Defever, Fabrice; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980-1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of...
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Black entrepreneurs, job creation, and financial constraints
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Brown, J. David; Earle, … - 2021
larger than White-owned by about seven percent. Exploiting the credit supply shock of changing assignment to Community … expanded credit access raises employment 5-7 percentage points more at Black-owned businesses than White-owned firms in treated …
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"Since you're so rich, you must be really smart" : talent, rent sharing, and the finance wage premium
Böhm, Michael; Metzger, Daniel; Strömberg, Per - 2022
of Swedish workers, which include unique measures of individual talent, with financial information on their employers, we …
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Epidemic exposure, financial technology, and the digital divide
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure. Epidemic exposure is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172856
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Trustworthiness in the financial industry
Gill, Andrej; Heinz, Matthias; Schumacher, Heiner; … - 2020
The financial industry has been struggling with widespread misconduct and public mistrust. Here we argue that the lack of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into the financial industry. We identify the social preferences...
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