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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 2011

a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible …

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Does it Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

McKenzie, David J.; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - 2021

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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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 … interdependent relationship between the share of loan financing and R&D intensity. A higher share of loan financing allows for more R … detected by merely estimating single-equation models for R&D intensity and debt financing …

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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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Inflation Expectations and Corporate Borrowing Decisions : New Causal Evidence

Ropele, Tiziano; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2022

We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations...

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Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions : New Causal Evidence

Coibion, Olivier - 2019

We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on firms' economic decisions. In the survey, a randomly chosen subset of firms is repeatedly treated with information about recent inflation (or the European Central Bank's inflation...

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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011

In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …

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