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Market size, productivity, entrepreneurship and income inequality in a model a'la Melitz
Pokrovsky, Dmitry; Kokovin, Sergej G.; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - 2013
) heterogeneous in their entrepreneurship abilities and choose between being employees or entrepreneurs. The sufficient conditions in …
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Entrepreneurship and firms' mobility : ERSA, Bratislava 2012
Pablo-Martí, Federico; García Tabuenca, Antonio; … - 2012
The location of new establishments is a major issue from the perspective of economic activity and the analysis of the territory. Although both its determinants and consequences are multiple and complex, most studies are focused on single factors or aggregate approaches. This paper presents an...
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The effect of personalized feedback on small enterprises' finances in Uganda
Grohmann, Antonia; Menkhoff, Lukas; Seitz, Helke - 2019
This study examines the effect of two different finance trainings on business outcomes. The first training is based on a "rule-of-thumb" approach, teaching simple financial rules. The content of the second training is exactly the same but additionally provides personalized feedback on past...
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Start-up subsidies and the sources of venture capital
Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2021
Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular on Venture Capital (VC), through providing certification and early-stage liquidity. Building on the attention-based view, we argue that the various sources of VC value...
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Equity crowdfunding of an entrepreneurial activity
Giudici, Giancarlo - In: University evolution, entrepreneurial activity and …, (pp. 415-425). 2016
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Female entrepreneurship and SMEs : changes in access to credit and business results?
García Tabuenca, Antonio; Pablo Martí, Federico; … - 2015
The research on women entrepreneurship has mainly studied these topics: i) the characteristics and motivations (Brush … behaviour of women entrepreneurs and its reasons. They can also serve to develop new entrepreneurship policies related to gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481696
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Financing needs of nascent entrepreneurs in Chile : does gender matter?
Romaní, Gianni; Atienza, Miguel; Amorós, José Ernesto - 2010
scarcely in Latin America. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been a call to study entrepreneurship taking in …-demographic characteristics, perception related to entrepreneurship. The analysis is based on a representative sample of the Chilean adult … aspects related to entrepreneurship. These results provide a better understanding of the financial needs of nascent …
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Unequal cities : self-selection, matching, and the distribution of income
Behrens, Kristian; Pokrovsky, Dmitry - 2013
We develop a model of a city populated by heterogeneous agents. Agents self-select into entrepreneurship, and … underlying skill distribution for selection into entrepreneurship, rent gradients, and city-wide inequality in disposable incomes … advantage in entrepreneurship, so that there exists some endogenously determined unique cutoff that separates workers from …
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Does monetary policy affect mergers and acquisitions?
Fischer, Johannes; Horn, Carl-Wolfram - 2021 - This version: March 1, 2021
We analyse the effects of monetary policy on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the United States, both on the aggregate and the firm level. We find that aggregate M&A activity decreases significantly following a monetary policy shock. The aggregate results are confirmed by an analysis...
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The information paradox in a monopolist's credence goods market
Jost, Peter-J.; Reik, Steffen; Ressi, Anna - 2019
Credence goods markets, such as those for car repairs and medical treatments, are generally characterized by an ex-ante and ex-post information asymmetry between the uninformed buyer and the informed seller. Previous literature demonstrates that efficiency and fraud in a monopolist credence...
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