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The Survival of Unique Corporate Cultures
Epstein, Gil S. - 2016
In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate : Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - 2014
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …
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Are Microloans Bad for Growth?
Emerson, Patrick M. - 2010
This paper constructs a two-period overlapping generations model of human capital investment decisions where a microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital externalities (social returns to education) there exists a...
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy - 2010
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
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Risk Management Among the Poor : The Case of Microfinancial Services
Arun, Thankom Gopinath - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit : Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal - 2014
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs : An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016
The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …
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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2015
microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions …
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