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Hoping to win, expected to lose : theory and lessons on micro enterprise development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615069
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S. - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101353
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The Impact of Generous Financial Support on Firm Entry and Exit in the Restaurant Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Oikawa, Masato; Onishi, Koichiro - 2022
This paper examines the impact of governmental generous financial support for dine-in restaurants that reduced their business hours in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic on the entry and exit of restaurants using administrative data. The descriptive analysis results show that the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307454
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Do active innovation policies matter? : Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs
Liu, Wan-hsin (contributor) - 2008
an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751915
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R&D policies for young SMEs : input and output effects
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2015
This paper evaluates the current focus of EU policy makers on small and medium-sized, young independent firms in high-tech sectors. Therefore, the effect of subsidies on both R&D input and R&D output is compared between independent high-tech young firms (NTBFs), independent low-tech young firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519610
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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488919
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Can government intervention make firms more investment-ready? : a randomized experiment in the Western Balkans
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Dautovic, Ernest; McKenzie, David J. - 2020
Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200841
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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010
-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660559
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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665439
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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267839