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Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs About Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status
McKenzie, David J. - 2018
A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of US$50,000 each, is used to elicit beliefs about what the outcomes would have been in the alternative treatment status. Participants are asked the percent chance they would be...
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Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship : Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs with the ability to grow their firms beyond this size? And, if so, can public policy help alleviate the constraints that prevent...
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco - 2017
particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of "entrepreneurship" is critically discussed …
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance : Microeconomic Evidence from Advanced and Developing Countries
Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
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 … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …
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Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities
Lerner, Josh - 2017
entrepreneurship. In recent decades, efforts have increased to provide the world's poorest with financing and other assistance to … facilitate their entry into entrepreneurship or the growth of their small ventures. These are typically subsistence businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973210
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Patterns of Business Creation, Survival and Growth : Evidence from Africa
Klapper, Leora F. - 2017
The authors study firm dynamics using a novel database of all formally registered firms in Cote d'Ivoire from 1977 to 1997, which account for about 60 percent of gross domestic product. First, they examine entry and exit patterns and the role of new and exiting firms versus incumbents in job...
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What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
Is it the institutions or firm characteristics at birth that shape startups and their early growth in developing countries? Using comprehensive data from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries this paper addresses this question by studying the early lifecycle of firms across diverse...
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Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth, and Firm Size Distribution
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
How many and which firms issue equity and bonds in domestic and international markets, how do these firms grow relative to non-issuing firms, and how does firm performance vary along the firm size distribution? To evaluate these questions, a new data set is constructed by matching data on...
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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2017
Using a randomized evaluation with 432 Mexican small and medium enterprises, this paper shows that access to management consulting led to better firm performance: one-year results show positive effects on return-on-assets and total factor productivity. Owners also had large increases in...
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How Bribery Distorts Firm Growth : Differences by Firm Attributes
Seker, Murat - 2017
How corruption affects economic performance has been studied for over a decade. Yet the lack of detailed firm-level data has limited research regarding who is carrying the real burden of corruption. This study shows that for firms in the Latin America and Caribbean region, bribery significantly...
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