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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies : An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu - 2011
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 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'...
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur - 2014
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139037
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104671
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Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
Aaberge, Rolf - 2006
During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach there are however two potentially important issues that are worthwhile...
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
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Testing the Advantages of Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought for Complex Decisions in a Distraction Free Paradigm
McElroy, Todd - 2016
In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better … decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making …
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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur : The Case of Income Comparisons
Clark, Andrew - 2015
these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility …
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What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions : Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2015
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
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