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Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Earle, John S. - 2022
We estimate the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending in lower-income neighborhoods. Using 2004-2016 panel data on census tracts, we apply a combined regression discontinuity and fixed effect method. We find that the number of small business loans increases by...
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Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises : A Review
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2020
Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842053
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Access to Finance Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020
In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822842
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level : Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016226
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania : Evidence and Long-Run Implications
Ambrosini, William - 2012
Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104655
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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam
Borcan, Oana - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104673
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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106298
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Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania : A Multilevel Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper … analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using … survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM). Our findings suggest that, although Romania has improved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069636
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001327
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Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2006
We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778998