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study the optimal choice of price index in markets with financial frictions. Financial frictions that limit credit …-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … consumers are credit-constrained …
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hypotheses empirically. Our main findings are that: (i) better access to international credit for a recipient country reduces the …
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entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints … level of credit constraints may be worth 2% of GDP per year direct earnings increases …
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provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this … framework, we show that possibility of an inverted U- shaped relationship between the credit supply and the size of the firm … to both frictions in the credit and labour markets …
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … Pissarides (1999) and Pissarides (2000) where we introduce credit constraints. We show these credit constraints not only increase … country panel dataset of 20 OECD countries. Our results suggest that credit market imperfections significantly increase the …
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relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no … receiving large transfers – even in the absence of credit constraints, and when participants have no intention of remaining in …
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How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and the financial market, we address two prominent mechanism through which firms' financial constraints amplify unemployment and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial...
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single immigrants with accessibility to a perfect capital market to the case of credit-constrained immigrant families, it is …
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Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
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