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Young enterprises and bank credit denials
Mascia, Danilo V. - 2018
By employing a sample of 20,956 observations of non-financial SMEs headquartered in the Euro area, between 2009 and 2015, we test whether young businesses are more likely to face credit rejections from lenders than their older peers. Our findings appear to confirm our suspicions that new...
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Success Breeds Success Locally : A Tale of Incubator Firms
Inci, Eren - 2008
This paper considers a region in which some would-be entrepreneurs are in the network of a hub firm and the rest stand alone. Project ideas come in two types: good and not-so-good. Entrepreneurs need to borrow from banks or local financiers to start their projects. Local financiers receive a...
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
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Matching in Entrepreneurial Finance Networks
Pasquini, Ricardo - 2017
We empirically explore the importance of networks in the match formation of startups and investors. Using a massive network of connections from the entrepreneurial finance setting in California, we estimate a matching model introducing network distance as a key determinant of the value of a...
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The effect of credit composition on entrepreneurship
Aghdam, Ali Nassiri; Behdarvand, Shahin; Sheshdeh, … - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 4 (2023) 4, pp. 1-21
In this study, we aim to assess the relevance of credit composition to entrepreneurship empirically in light of the … composition on entrepreneurship in 54 high- and middle-income economies from 2001 to 2016. To capture credit composition, we … entrepreneurship. The results indicate that credit composition is important for both high- and middle-income economies, but the …
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Alumni Networks in Entrepreneurial Financing
Garfinkel, Jon A.; Mayer, Erik J.; Yimfor, Emmanuel - 2022
One in three deals in the early-stage financing market involves an investor and founder from the same alma mater. We show that founders' connections to early-stage investors through shared education networks are more important than school academic quality or shared geography in facilitating...
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Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in India : sources and challenges
Singh, Charan; Wasdani, Kishinchand Poornima - 2016
Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) has been a concern for all stakeholders including entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and government organizations. The key objective of the study was to identify various challenges faced by MSMEs in sourcing of finance during...
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Lender-Borrower Relationships and Loan Origination Costs
Ostromogolsky, Philip - 2017
Using a recently developed method of causal inference, this paper estimates the additional up-front loan origination costs that a small business can expect to pay when it first borrows from a new lender. I compare firms that borrow from a previously unused financial institution with firms that...
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Commercial Banking Profitability in Post Communist Countries : The Role of Entrepreneurship: 1990-2004
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2009
as capitalists in the banking sector, since it is shown that entrepreneurship has a positive impact on banking …
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Financial Development and Selection into Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Italy and US
Deidda, Manuela - 2014
assessing the relationship between households' initial net wealth and the probability to switch to entrepreneurship in Italy and … exposure to financial risk, would positively affect transition into entrepreneurship. Therefore, I fill a gap in the literature … entrepreneurship and changes in net wealth. Using a sample selection model with endogenous switching allows me to deal with endogeneity …
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