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Financial Constraints, Working Capital and the Dynamic Behavior of the Firm
Chan, Rosanna C. - 2017
Financial constraints are widespread in developing countries, where even short-term credit is limited. Finance held by firms as working capital is a substantial proportion of sales revenue, yet the role of working capital is largely neglected by existing models of financial constraints. This...
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Weathering the Storm : Responses by Cambodian Firms to the Global Financial Crisis
Guimbert, Stephane - 2017
Firms have various ways to cope with external risks. This paper analyzes the risk coping behavior that entails the smoothing of inputs (labor, raw materials, or capital). The theoretical framework shows that, if they face adjustment costs, firms prefer to smooth their inputs, especially if they...
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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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What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
the early lifecycle of firms across diverse institutional environments of regions in India. It finds that the size and …
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Does Local Financial Development Matter for Firm Lifecycle in India?
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
The differences in financial development across Indian states, while seeming substantial, have a minor effect on firm lifecycle and growth. These results hold controlling for differences in labor regulations across states, capital intensity, and for firms born before and after the major reforms....
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The Financing and Growth of Firms in China and India : Evidence from Capital Markets
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
This paper studies the extent to which firms in China and India use capital markets to obtain financing and grow. Using …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share -- Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2017
comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However … productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms …
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, the authors ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms, providing free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976149
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Why Liquidity Matters to the Export Decision of the Firm
Chan, Rosanna C. - 2017
Under financial constraints, exporting may have less to do with productivity and more to do with financial resources. The established relationship between exporting and productivity would differ when examined through the lens of the working capital needs of the firm. The hypothesis that working...
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Poverty Dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012 : Insights from Longitudinal Analysis Using Synthetic Panel Data
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018
Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population …
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