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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Freiberufliche Gründungen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse einer erstmaligen Auswertung von Daten der Finanzverwaltung
Kranzusch, Peter; Suprinovic, Olga; Haunschild, Ljuba - 2012
Die Gründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn enthielt bisher keine Angaben zu nichtgewerblichen Gründungen, darunter insbesondere freiberufliche. Zur Ermittlung einer alle Wirtschaftsbereiche umfassenden Gründungszahl wurden erstmals in 15 Bundesländern Angaben zu steuerlichen Anmeldungen bei den...
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Banking 2025: The Bank of the Future
Lenz, Rainer - 2015
Developments in information technology are fundamentally changing many traditional business models. Progress in the IT area is bringing about one change in particular: it is reducing search costs and allowing buyers and sellers of products and services to find each other directly on web-based...
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Unternehmensgründungen und Crowdinvesting
Löher, Jonas; Schell, Sabrina; Schneck, Stefan; … - 2015
Innovativen Wachstumsunternehmen steht mit dem Crowdinvesting in Deutschland seit 2011 eine neuartige Finanzierungsmethode zur Verfügung. Hierbei versuchen die meist jungen Unternehmen durch einen gezielten öffentlichen Aufruf eine breite Masse privater Investoren anzusprechen. Basierend auf...
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Advance-Purchase Financing of Projects with Few Buyers
Sahm, Marco - 2015
I investigate a simple model of advance-purchase contracts as a mode of financing costly projects. The analysis can easily be reinterpreted as a model of the monopolistic provision of excludable public goods under private information. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order...
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Key Success Factors of Crowdfunding: From a User Experience Perspective
Wang, Eunice Hsiao-Hui; Lin, Yu-Tsen - 2015
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...
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Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors
Parker, Simon C. - 2014
are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …
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A Theory of Crowdfunding - A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard
Strausz, Roland - 2016
Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under … information threatens this benefit. Despite these threats, popular crowdfunding schemes are able to implement optimal screening … mechanisms. Crowdfunding's after-markets enable consumers to actively implement deferred payments and thereby optimally manage …
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Determinants of borrowers' default in P2P lending under consideration of the loan risk class
Polena, Michal; Regner, Tobias - 2016
We study the determinants of borrowers' default in P2P lending with a new data set consisting of 70,673 loan observations from Lending Club. Previous research identified a number of default determining variables but did not distinguish between different loan risk levels. We define four loan risk...
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