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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329194
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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721622
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Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
’s domestic bank by an internationalized banking group. Our results show that, after the acquisition, firms have a significantly … higher probability of starting export in countries where the consolidated bank has a foreign branch, which proxies for the … mainly reduce firms’ fixed entry costs in a foreign market. The analysis also shows that other channels, such as bank credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351997
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction: a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269187
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070421
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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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Reputation and credit market formation: how relational incentives and legal contract enforcement interact
Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2009
The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269410
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Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Earle, John S. - 2021
We estimate the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending in lower-income neighborhoods. Using 2004-2016 panel data on census tracts, we apply a combined regression discontinuity and fixed effect method. We find that the number of small business loans increases by...
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Mortgage Finance and Culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
Using a nationally representative sample of 12,344 immigrants from 41 different countries of ancestry living in Spain in 2007, we find that the higher the housing-loan penetration in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood of having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816588
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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2013
Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319511