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Firms' Financing Constraints : Do Perceptions Match the Actual Situation?

Ferrando, Annalisa - 2013

This paper uses a non-parametric matching procedure to match survey replies to balance sheet information. It draws on the SAFE survey on access to finance for a sample of 11886 firms in the euro area which are matched with their nearest neighbor in an extended dataset with balance sheet...

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Financing Obstacles Among Euro Area Firms : Who Suffers the Most?

Ferrando, Annalisa; Griesshaber, Nicolas - 2021

In this study we investigate the determinants of financing obstacles using survey data on a sample of around 5000 firms from the euro area countries. This completely new survey – started at the end of 2009 - gives us the opportunity to test whether firm characteristics such as size, age,...

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Firms’ financing constraints: do perceptions match the actual situation?

Ferrando, Annalisa; Mulier, Klaas - 2013

This paper uses a non parametric matching procedure to match survey replies to balance sheet information. It draws on the SAFE survey on access to finance for a sample of 11886 firms in the euro area which are matched with their nearest neighbour in an extended dataset with balance sheet...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605622

Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment?

Barrot, Jean-Noel - 2016

In 2011, the federal government accelerated payments to their small business contractors, spanning virtually every county and industry in the US. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector employment growth over the subsequent three years. Despite firms being paid just 15 days sooner,...

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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes

Bonanno, Graziella - 2020

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

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Public Contracting for Private Innovation : Government Expertise, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes

Bruce, Joshua R. - 2018

We examine how the U.S. Federal Government governs R&D contracts with private-sector firms. The government chooses between two contractual forms: grants and cooperative agreements. The latter provides the government substantially greater discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress....

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The Economics of Biodiversity Loss

Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...

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Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run : Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018

McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Oxley, Les - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of...

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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a...

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Financial Constraints and Productivity : Evidence from Euro Area Companies

Ferrando, Annalisa - 2015

We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a unique dataset of firm-level data for several euro area countries during the period 1995-2011. The empirical strategy is twofold. First we build a synthetic indicator of financial...

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