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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nick - 2006
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …
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Globalisierung der Märkte : Herausforderung und Optionen für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen, insbesondere für Zulieferer ; Gutachten im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtscha...
Fieten, Robert (contributor); Friedrich, Werner (contributor) - 1997
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Strategien zur Sicherung der Existenz kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen
Schmidt, Axel - 1989
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Mittelstand und Mittelstandspolitik in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaften
Richter, Wolf Christian (contributor);  … - 1994
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Mittelstand und Mittelstandspolitik in den neuen Bundesländern
Schmidt, Axel G. (contributor); Hüfner, Peter (contributor) - 1992
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Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending
Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000
The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
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Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission : Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms
Caglio, Cecilia R.; Darst, R. Matthew; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using confidential regulatory firm-bank-loan level data from the U.S., we document four new facts about the credit market. First, private SMEs typically utilize all available bank credit which comprises their entire balance sheet debt, compared to large listed firms who can switch between...
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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...
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