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Mutual guarantee institutions and small business finance
Columba, Francesco; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Mistrulli, … - Bank for International Settlements / Monetary and …
A large body of literature has shown that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries. Banks can overcome these asymmetries through relationship lending, or at least mitigate their effects by asking for collateral. Small firms, especially...
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Women and Finance in Rural andUrban Sudan: A Case Study inGreater Omdurman and Khartoum
Schultz, Ulrike; Makkawi, Asia; Al Fatih, Tayseer - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
In the paper it is inquired how Sudanese women use the financial institutions in order toorganise their lives between market, household, and the community. The results arebased on interviews and observations done in two villages in the surroundings ofOmdurman (Al Gharaza and Sanahir), displaced...
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Clusterentwicklung - Herausforderung an ein aktuelles Instrument der Wirtschaftsförderung
Grote Westrick, Dagmar; Müller, Angelika - 2002
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Gastbeitrag: Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitute alsKristallisationspunkte in regionalen Innovationssystemen
Heinze, Rolf - Institut für Arbeit und Technik - 2010
Trotz der noch immer schwierigen wirtschaftlichenSituation sind Teile des Ruhrgebietsauf dem Weg, ein bedeutender Standort für dieGesundheitswirtschaft zu werden. Hier hat sichin den letzten Jahren viel zum Positiven bewegt,da das Ruhrgebiet über einen quantitativ mehrals soliden...
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Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutunggeistigen Eigentums und dessen Schutzesmit Fokus auf den Mittelstand - Endbericht
Blind, Knut; Cuntz, Alexander; Köhler, Florian; … - Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie - 2009
Universität Berlin sowie KMU Forschung Austria, imLaufe des Jahres 2008 erstellt wurde... …
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Zur Realität von Mikrokreditfonds in der Bundesrepublik Deutschlandim Vergleich zu internationalen Umsetzungserfahrungen
Maas, Brigitte; Meißner, Heinz-Rudolf - 2001
In der zweiten Förderphase der EU-Gemeinschaftsinitiativen (1995 - 1997) hatten bereits einige Trägerorganisationen von NOW-Projekten den Aspekt der Existenzgründungförderung als einen Weg aus der Arbeitslosigkeit in ihre Qualifizierungs- und Beratungsarbeit mit aufgenommen.
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From Boom to Bust: How different has microfinance been from traditional banking?
Wagner, Charlotte - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2010
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector beforeand after the Lehman Brothers … countries. Thefindings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditionalbanking … raises the question whether the crisis resiliencethe microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a characterizing …
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Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice
Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Few micro…nance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneur-ship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure ofexisting micro…nance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected returninvestments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that uni…es...
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Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty
Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
uncertainty and investment;ultimately this relationship is theoretically ambiguous. Using loan-level panel data from microfi…nance …
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Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research
Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet … mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat deal of interest from economic theorists. Influential papers from …
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