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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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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal … structure ; business start-ups ; KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523478
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Dynamics of first-time patenting firms
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid - 2022
This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...
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Family ownership, workplace closure and the recession
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900570
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Offshoring and firm performance : self-selection, effects on performance, or both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
on other core dimensions of firm performance. -- Offshoring ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923926
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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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The effect of credit guarantees on R&D investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578886
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Impact of financial crises on dynamics of capital structure : evidence from Korean listed companies
Tsoy, Lyubov; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...
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