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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment
Vergara, Marcos; Bonilla, Claudio A. - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo - 2012
preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence,and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA. …
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Towards contemporary issues in the financial system
Chodnicka, Patrycja (contributor);  … - Wydział Zarządzania, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Changes in the financial market and attempts at implementation of prudential regulation proposals after the recent financial crisis resulted in the scientific conference entitled International Conference on Management, Banking and Finance, held at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw,...
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The Application of Principal-Agent Methods to Investor-Investee Relations in the UK Venture Capital Industry
Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1998
Principal-agent analysis is applied to contemporary evidence on venture capital investment. The investor (as principal) and investee (as agent) are analysed in terms of risk management, information handling and the trading of risk and information. Investors and investees were paired in 'dyads',...
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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184078
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Entrepreneurship - Methodische Herausforderungen einer jungen Forschungsdisziplin
Schuster, Charlotte Leonie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own … methodological challenges. In addition, data bases in entrepreneurship are often small and difficult to access and therefore restrict … arise for empirical entrepreneurship research? Based on a literature review and an outline of the state of research, it will …
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Entrepreneurship and team participation: An experimental study
Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista Jabs - In: European Economic Review 59 (2013) C, pp. 126-140
Entrepreneurs are surprisingly unlikely to have partners. One possible explanation for this is that entrepreneurs have distinctive preferences for working alone rather than in teams. However, a number of alternative explanations exist, such as an inability to locate suitable partners or low...
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Small and Medium Sized Enterprises as the Driving Force of Romania Economic Growth
Dumitrescu, Alina Ligia - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 2, pp. 49-53
the Small Business Act and to the importance of entrepreneurship development as a source of new jobs. In conclusion, the … SMEs sector in Romania is to increase innovation and youth entrepreneurship. Last, but not the least the top priority for …
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Sustainable Development and Guidance for Entrepreneurship in Unfavoured Regions: The Case of the Alentejo Region
Fragoso, Rui - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012
development driven by entrepreneurship phenomena could be a viable solution. Thus, the likely relationships between … entrepreneurship and regional features were described, and sources of entrepreneurship opportunities for strategies based on the own … habitat variables should be reinforced for promoting entrepreneurship and sustainable development, and the main opportunities …
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Budget Constraints and Profitability: Evidence from a Transition Economy
Rizov, Marian - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002
A conceptual framework for analyzing the credit rationing and the link between credit access and profitability is developed. The empirical analysis using data from manufacturing firms in Bulgaria, provides direct estimates of credit rationing and its impact on profitability in transition...
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