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Does gender matter for firm performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2008

; those focusing on finance will be cross classified with G24 Investment Banking, venture capital, brokerage and rating …

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2008

recent firm level database. We pay particular attention to the impact of domestic access to finance. Our results show that … engage in own R&D or if they have good access to domestic finance. However, access to finance only plays a role for private … little significance for SOEs and is also independent of their access to finance. By contrast, it is an important channel …

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Regional evidence on the finance-growth Nexus

Vaona, Andrea - 2006

The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence … countries. The results for this application support the view that finance leads growth, reject its possible endogeneity and …

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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: A cautionary note

Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - 2006

The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the finance-growth nexus. Overall, our …

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Political regime, private investment, and foreign direct investment in developing countries

Udomkerdmongkol, Manop; Morrissey, Oliver - 2008

This paper uses annual aggregate data for 36 low or middle income countries covering the period 1995-2001 to investigate the effect of FDI on private investment. It also explores if the relationship between FDI and private investment is influenced by the nature of the political regime, using...

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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. …

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Linkages, access to finance and the performance of small-scale enterprises in Kenya

Atieno, Rosemary - 2009

Micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) have become important players in the Kenyan economy, but at the same time they continue to face constraints that limit their development. Lack of access to financial services is one of the main constraints, and a number of factors have been identified to...

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The impact of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability transitions: Financial investment, governance and public discourse

Geels, Frank W. - 2013

The paper distinguishes four views on the impact of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability transitions (operationalized as diffusion of green niche-innovations). The first three views highlight the possibility of positive impacts of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability...

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Infrastructure and trade: A gravity analysis for major trade categories using a new index of infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Glas, Alexander; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in …

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