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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267763

African Americansà pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007

classification of firms by human- and financial-capital intensiveness, or entry barriers, we find, is useful for explaining racial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268143

Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become self-employed in some occupations. Using longitudinal social security data, we implement a matched difference-in-differences design with entropy balancing to account for...

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African Americans’ Pursuit of Self-Employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; bates, timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

classification of firms by human- and financial-capital "intensiveness", or entry barriers, we find, is useful for explaining racial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763894

Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822475

Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2024

We study how frictions in learning others' technology, termed "imperfect technology spillovers," impact firm innovation strategies and the aggregate economy through changes in innovation composition. We develop an endogenous growth model that generates strategic innovation decisions, where...

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in …

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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 … that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are less likely to apply for a bank loan. This … result is not due to sample selection, omitted variable bias, or reverse causality, and it is robust to different econometric …

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