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Source of finance, growth and firm size: Evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - 2009
financing source matters for firm growth is greater for small firms than big firms. Self-raised finance appears to be most … size, finance and growth also depends on ownership. In addition, there exist strong complementarities between formal and … informal finance, as well as between indigenous and foreign finance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273480
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Funding Self-Employment:The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling forfinancial and non-financial household variables we show that self … overdrafts areused by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that interminglingconstitutes a financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522202
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Access to digital finance: Equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms
Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2023
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount...
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Finance and Firm Start-up Size: Quantile Regression Evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
between informal finance and entry size across all size quantiles. Given the well-documented positive correlations between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544206
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The Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic and Export Markets Dynamics in China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
Using recent data from the Chinese manufacturing industry and the generalised propensity score, this paper establishes economically significant causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic and export markets dynamics.
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Multinationals, Access to Finance and the Exports of Private Firms in China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
Using a rich panel data set, we provide a rigorous analysis of the relationship between access to external finance …
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Does the Source of Finance Matter for Firm Growth? Evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
Using a comprehensive micro dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a systematic investigation of the relationship between financial structure and firm growth in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the former. It finds that financial structure does matter for firm growth...
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Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size ? Evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between f$
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995235
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The Legal Framework for Microlending inGermany and its Implications for theLending Design
Kritikos, Alexander; Kneiding, Christoph - Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktaktivierung - 2008
In this paper we investigate the status quo of regulation for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) inGermany. A short presentation of the legal framework is followed by a detailed account of thepractical implications for the lending design that MFIs face. Five different models of loan extensionare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869665
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Funding Self-Employment – The Role ofConsumer Credit
Kritikos, Alexander; Kneiding, Christoph - GfA - Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktaktivierung - 2007
In this paper we investigate whether self-employed households use consumer loans tofinance their business activities. In particular, it is shown that self-employed householdsuse personal overdrafts significantly more often than employee households do. Thisdifference remains when controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869673