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SME Registration Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rahman, Aminur - 2013
Informality is pervasive in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the majority of firms are informal and as such they might not have access to prime markets, while lowering the tax base. The authors implemented an information campaign on registration, including both the step-by-step procedures...
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance : Microeconomic Evidence from Advanced and Developing Countries
Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction" from simple "turbulence"; 2) the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557125
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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - 2013
The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...
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What Does "Entrepreneurship" Data Really Show? A Comparison of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and World Bank Group Datasets
Acs, Zoltan J.; Desai, Sameeksha; Klapper, Leora F. - 2012
captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity; the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey dataset captures formal business … greater levels of early-stage entrepreneurship in developing economies than do the World Bank data. The World Bank data tend … economic development. A possible explanation for this is that the World Bank data measure rates of entry in the formal economy …
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Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation Across Countries
Klapper, Leora; Amit, Raphael; Guill??n, Mauro F. - 2012
The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity around the world. The database includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552816
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Bank Financing for SMEs around the World : Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, and Lending Practices
Beck, Thorsten; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Mart??nez … - 2012
enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive …
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Bank Involvement with SMEs : Beyond Relationship Lending
de la Torre, Augusto; Mart??nez Per??a, Mar??a Soledad; … - 2012
interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage in doing so because they can overcome SME opaqueness through …
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Does Foreign Portfolio Investment Reach Small Listed Firms?
Knill, April M. - 2012
Using a unique dataset, the author examines the impact of foreign portfolio investment on the capital issuance behavior of small listed firms. The author finds that foreign portfolio investment is associated with an increased probability of small firm security issuance in all nations, regardless...
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Financial Development and Innovation in Small Firms
Sharma, Siddharth - 2012
This paper uses firm level data from a cross-section of 57 countries to study how financial development affects innovation in small firms. The analysis finds that relative to large firms in the same industry, spending on research and development by small firms is more likely and sizable in...
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Financing Small and Medium-Size Enterprises with Factoring : Global Growth and its Potential in Eastern Europe
Bakker, Marie H. R.; Klapper, Leora; Udell, Gregory F. - 2013
billion euro in 2003. Although the importance of factoring varies considerably around the world, it occurs in most countries …
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