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Personal bankruptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship: Theory and evidence from the introduction of a fresh start
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
tend not to face higher interest rates because they provide collateral. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274553
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Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force
Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021
We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597555
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"
Fossen, Frank M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
tend not to face higher interest rates because they provide collateral. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804593
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Debt portfolios
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2011
the U.S. We then establish the quantitative result that home equity does not serve as informal collateral for unsecured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278362
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical … business start-up costs. We use three highly comparable micro datasets (SHARE, ELSA and HRS) providing harmonized data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268364
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196652
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When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722699
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004
In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271755
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When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329010
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Does Dual Vocational Education and Training Pay Off?
Bentolila, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio; Jansen, Marcel - 2023
This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469505