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Financial dependence, formal credit, and informal jobs : new evidence from Brazilian household data
Catão, Luis; Pagés, Carmen; Rosales, Maria Fernanda - 2009
This paper examines a much overlooked link between credit markets and formalization: since access to bank credit typically requires compliance with tax and employment legislation, firms are more likely to incur such formalization costs once bank credit is more widely available at lower cost; if...
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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517869
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Does compliance with financial fair play rules improve the football clubs' sport performance and their chances to reach UEFA competitions?
Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Agnese, Pablo - 2021
This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses data of teams competing in the 1st division of four top domestic leagues (Premier League, La Liga,...
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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect … financial statements to develop an index of financing constraints. We estimate that a 10 percent increase in this index reduces ….5 percent. We document that lower investment in training reduces productivity, and show that firms facing tighter financing …
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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices
Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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Financing social protection in OECD countries : role and uses of revenue earmarking
Immervoll, Herwig - 2024
compares financing patterns and trends and provides examples of earmarking for social insurance and assistance programmes. It … concludes with a discussion of carbon pricing as a potential source of financing social support programmes. …
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Internal finance and growth : microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms
Guariglia, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2008
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...
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Investment climate and employment growth : the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes (contributor);  … - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis (contributor);  … - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
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