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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Mariam; Karlan, Dean; Schoar, Antoinette - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012
We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprise in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548152
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Entrepreneurial optimism and survival
Hyytinen, Ari; Lahtonen, Jukka; Pajarinen, Mika - Suomen Pankki - 2012
study entrepreneurial optimism. Using data on a large number of nascent entrepreneurs in the US and start-ups in Finland, we … and decreasing in entrepreneurs level of education and industry experience in both countries. At least in Finland, those … holding optimistic views are more likely to transit into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548602
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
We show how financial and managerial constraints impede experimentation and thus limit learning about the profitability of investments. Imperfect information about one’s own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one’s type, leads to short-run negative expected returns to investments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610688
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570695
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Living Forever: Entrepreneurial Overconfidence at Older Ages
Groenen, Patrick; Koellinger, Philipp; Thurik, Roy; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013
two findings in combination offer evidence that overconfident individuals self- select into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067462
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Religious beliefs and entrepreneurship among Dutch protestants
Rietveld, Rietveld, C.A.; van Burg, van Burg, E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013
between religious beliefs and entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence that entrepreneurship rates differ among religions suggests … that religious beliefs influence the pursuit of entrepreneurship. However, how and which specific religious beliefs play a … entrepreneurship within one specific branch of Christianity, namely, Protestantism. Using a unique sample of 756 Christian protestant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067464
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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean S.; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprises in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083751
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S.; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084680
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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatisation
Kocenda, Evzen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996-99. It analyses the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest owner...
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Ownership Structure, Control and Firm Performance: The Effects of Vote Differentiated Shares
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
This paper contributes to the literature on ownership, control and performance by exploring these relationships for Swedish listed companies (1997-2002). We find that firms, on average, are making inferior investment decisions and that the use of dual-class shares have a negative effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642406