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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 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/10011307476
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Investment climate and employment growth: the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268270
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Does gender matter for firm performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2008
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269049
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Where are the real bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 firms in 60 countries about the shadow costs of constraints to firm performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E.; Seabright, Paul - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers' answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276461
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049
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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882468
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Finance, Informal Competition, and Expectations: A Firm-Level Analysis
Brancati, Emanuele; Di Maio, Michele; Rahman, Aminur - 2022
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show … in firms' access to finance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351979
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Access to Digital Finance: Equity Crowdfunding across Countries and Platforms
Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2023
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469443
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Up in STEM, Down in Business: Changing College Major Decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
majors is especially concentrated among finance and management. Third, we find strong heterogeneous effects by gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744708
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Pages, Carmen; Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762082