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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021
This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …
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And Schumpeter Said, ""This is How Thou Shalt Grow"" : Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - 2004
The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...
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The short-term impact of product market reforms : a cross-country firm-level analysis
Gál, Peter; Hijzen, Alexander - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711526
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Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?
Bernstein, Shai; Colonnelli, Emanuele; Malacrino, Davide; … - 2018
New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local...
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Sources of corporate profits in India : business dynamism or advantages of entrenchment?
Mody, Ashoka; Nath, Anusha; Walton, Michael - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488695
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Skill Acquisition and Firm Creation in Transition Economies
Li, Wenli - 1999
creation of new private firms. Using a dynamic search model, it shows how the lack of skilled workers inhibits entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400529
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Sources of Corporate Profits in India : Business Dynamism or Advantages of Entrenchment?
Walton, Michael - 2011
Some see India’s corporate sector as the fundamental driver of recent and future prosperity. Others see it as a source of excessive market power, personal enrichment, and influence over the State, with an ultimately distorting influence. To inform this debate, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403154
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Bank Competition and Firm Creation
Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2001
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However, consistent with theories of banking arguing that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403643
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Young firms and monetary policy transmission
Casiraghi, Marco; McGregor, Thomas; Palazzo, Dino - 2021
We investigate the role of business dynamism in the transmission of monetary policy by exploitingthe variation in firm demographics across U.S. states. Using local projections, we find that a larger fraction of young firms significantly mutes the effects of monetary policy on the labor market...
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Structural changes in Japanese firms : business dynamism in an aging society
Hong, Gee Hee; Ito, Arata; Saito, Yukiko Umeno; Anh Thi … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious threat to the survival of Japanese firms, highlighting the importance of understanding how and why firms exit. In this paper, we use a rich firm-level dataset of Japanese firms to document how firm exit patterns have evolved between 2007 and 2017. Firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302043