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Information Sharing and Information Acquisition: Ownership and Coverage
Karapetyan, Artashes; Stacescu, Bogdan - 2011
We examine the conditions required for the existence of private credit bureaus, their ownership and coverage. Our model implies that bank consortia will most likely be preferred by banks, but that they will lead to restricted coverage. Independent credit bureaus have higher coverage, but they...
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A class of N-player Colonel Blotto games with multidimensional private information
Ewerhart, Christian; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2021
In this paper, we study N-player Colonel Blotto games with incomplete information about battlefield valuations. Such games arise in job markets, research and development, electoral competition, security analysis, and conflict resolution. For M Ï N + 1 battlefields, we identify a Bayes-Nash...
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Why Do Firms Pay for Liquidity Provision in Limit Order Markets?
Skjeltorp, Johannes A.; Ødegaard, Bernt Arne - 2010
In recent years, a number of electronic limit order markets have reintroduced market makers for some securities (Designated Market Makers). This trend has mainly been initiated by financial intermediaries and listed firms themselves, without any regulatory pressure. In this paper we ask why...
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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Neri, Marcelo; Ulyssea, … - 2014
promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018
performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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The Bright but Right View? New Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggest that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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COVID-19 and SMEs: A 2021 "time bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 time bomb for SMEs. Rather, business...
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The local origins of business formation
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023
What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....
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