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Investor protection and business creation
Hyytinen, Ari; Takalo, Tuomas - Suomen Pankki - 2003
We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of … surplus between entrepreneurs and financiers. The results indicate that anything that increases (decreases) entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207158
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Investor protection and business creation
Hyytinen, Ari; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004
We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of … surplus between entrepreneurs and financiers. The results indicate that anything that increases (decreases) entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413115
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Crowdfunding and the Role of Managers in Ensuring the Sustainability of Crowdfunding Platforms
Ramos, Javier - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
Crowdfunding is an alternative way of finance and exchange where those seeking funding and those looking to invest or … donate can be matched. Creators and entrepreneurs can make use of online crowdfunding platforms to expand the pool of … potential investors and donors, who contribute via the Internet to the financing their online project. Yet, crowdfunding is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169784
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Long Run Relationships in Banking
Srinivasan, Anand - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Finance 8 (2014) 2, pp. 55-143
This monograph surveys the effects of long-run relationships in banking between corporate borrowers and lenders. The first part of the survey analyzes econometric issues in the measurement of the costs and benefits of such relationships. In particular, we analyze potential issues with commonly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990821
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
network even among its members. Because all projects have positive net value, it is efficient to finance them even in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646307
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Is venture capital a regional business? The role of syndication
Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006
We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany in the year 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207069
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Surveying Technology-Based Small Firms: A Perspective From Belgium
Bozkaya, Ant; Romain, Astrid; Pottelsberghe de la … - Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2003
affecting entrepreneurship and on the financial architecture of the firms. The survey data of 103 TBSFs shows that 82 percent of … entrepreneurs finance their firms with their own personal savings at seed stage. The debt-financing funds mostly in the form of … government subsidies of all kind and commercial bank loans are the secondary source of finance and together constitute the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450372
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Surveying technology-based small firms: a perspective from Belgium
ROMAIN, Astrid Romain; van Pottelsberghe de la … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2003
affecting entrepreneurship and on the financial architecture of the firms. The survey data of 103 TBSFs shows that 82 percent of … entrepreneurs finance their firms with their own personal savings at seed stage. The debt-financing funds mostly in the form of … government subsidies of all kind and commercial bank loans are the secondary source of finance and together constitute the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558845
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Crowdfunding: disintermediated investment banking
Rubinton, Brian J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper introduces crowdfunding as a concept and model for the evolution of investment banking. Crowdfunding, an … application of crowdsourcing, is defined as one party’s attempt to finance a project by offering three types of investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147586
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Finance For Growth and Policy Options for Emerging and Developing Economies: The Case of Nigeria
Olayiwola, Wumi; Okodua, Henry; Osabuohien, Evans S. - In: Asian Development Policy Review 2 (2014) 2, pp. 20-38
Finance is generally regarded as important for economic growth, but the role of finance in economic growth is a … controversial issue in the economic literature. The concept of ?finance for growth? refocuses the relationship between finance and … economic growth by redirecting the role of government policies in finance, and recognizes how finance without frontiers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949096