Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 370
Cover Image
Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010
beyond which further increases in leverage could lower TFP growth. -- Excess leverage ; bank efficiency ; market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944314
Cover Image
The value of business networks in emerging economies : an analysis of firms' external financing opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - 2011
hypothesis. Even after controlling for other factors, firms affiliated to business associations are more likely to secure bank … against the small and medium sized firms' access to bank loans in the CEE regions. Results are robust in both single cross …-section and panel data analyses. -- business networks ; agency costs ; external firm financing ; bank loans ; transition economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307402
Cover Image
Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314972
Cover Image
How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016
success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument … that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493763
Cover Image
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 KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523478
Cover Image
Displacement and debt : the role of debt in returning to work in the period following the Great Recession
Bednarzik, Robert W.; Kern, Andreas; Hisnanick, John J. - 2017
The onset of the housing and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 marked the steepest economic downturn in the United. States, since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. This most recent financial crisis has been characterized by massive layoffs and displacement. Given the depth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647674
Cover Image
Hospital closures and short-run change in ambulance call times
Chaudhary, Sookti; Davis, Alison; Troske, Kenneth R.; … - 2019
We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital closes. We empirically estimate the time needed to transport a patient to an emergency department in an ambulance in the period immediately after the hospital closes. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138928
Cover Image
Inflation expectations and firm decisions : new causal evidence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Ropele, Tiziano - 2018
recent inflation (or the European Central Bank's inflation target) whereas other firms are not. This information treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958753
Cover Image
The impact of hospital closures on medical debt in collections : analysis using consumer credit bureau data
Andre, Jennifer; Blavin, Fredric E.; Braga, Breno; … - 2023
This study presents new evidence on the potential detrimental effects of hospital closures. We examine how hospital closures affect the likelihood of incurring medical debt. Hospital closures can increase market concentration by removing a competitor from the market. Closures can also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342055
Cover Image
Inflation expectations and corporate borrowing decisions : new causal evidence
Ropele, Tiziano; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2022
We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414607