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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 …

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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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Fancy a stay at the "Hotel California"? : foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

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Does it pay firms to register for taxes? : The impact of formality on firm profitability

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the … interdependent relationship between the share of loan financing and R&D intensity. A higher share of loan financing allows for more R … detected by merely estimating single-equation models for R&D intensity and debt financing. -- innovation financing ; capital …

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Social networks in the boardroom

Kramarz, Francis (contributor); Thesmar, David (contributor) - 2006

This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...

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Managers' risk preferences and firm training investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive. Risk-averse managers are expected to select...

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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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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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The value of business networks in emerging economies : an analysis of firms' external financing opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - 2011

-section and panel data analyses. -- business networks ; agency costs ; external firm financing ; bank loans ; transition economies …

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