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Which entrepreneurs expect to expand their businesses? Evidence from survey data in Lithuania
Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2004
This paper presents an empirical study based on a survey of 399 small and medium size companies in Lithuania. Applying bivariate and ordered probit estimators, we investigate why some business owners intend to expand their firms, while others do not. Our main findings provide evidence that the...
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Across the pond : a comparison of the Mexican & British SMEs and their dealings with sustainability.
Victoria-Uribe, Ricardo; Lofthouse, V.A. - 2006
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an importantpart of the worldwide economy, acting both as the backbone of local economiesand as consumers of natural resources. In light of this, since the 1990’s,research to investigate how to make them more sustainable through the...
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Did the bank capital relief induced by the supporting factor enhance SME lending?
Mayordomo Gómez, Sergio; Rodríguez Moreno, María - 2017
como SME SF, por sus siglas en inglés— permite a los bancos reducir los requerimientos regulatorios de capital por dar … forma de nuevos préstamos. El presente trabajo muestra que el SME SF contribuyó a aliviar las restricciones de crédito de … las empresas medianas que eran elegibles para la aplicación del SME SF, pero no así de las pequeñas y microempresas. Estos …
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Strategisches Verhalten kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen der deutschen Ernährungsindustrie
Friedrich Christian Weseloh - 2004
Unternehmen (KMU) der deutschen Ernährungsindustrie strategisch Verhalten bzw. was für Strategien Anwendung finden. In der … ausgewertet. Die Strategiewerte verdeutlichen, dass sich die KMU hinsichtlich des Ausmaßes ihres strategischen Verhaltens …
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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning
Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009
As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...
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Essays in international finance and search theory.
Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992
This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...
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Equilibrium, efficient-markets, and liquidity in the cash-in-advance model
Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez; Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez - 1991
equilibrium theory. Consider, for instance, the case of the efficiency of forward exchange rates vis-a-vis spot rates. Depending …
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ESTIMATION OF THE LINEAR AND QUADRATIC EXPENDITURE SYSTEMS FOR COLOMBIAN HOUSEHOLDS
MARTIN, THOMAS LEE; MARTIN, THOMAS LEE - 1981
This study is an empirical analysis of household expenditure behavior using the Linear and Quadratic Expenditure Systems. The expenditure systems are estimated using data collected in 1972 by the Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadisticas (DANE) of Bogota, Colombia. The Linear...
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Essays on parametric and nonparametric modeling and estimation with applications to energy economics
Gao, Weiyu; Gao, Weiyu - 1999
My dissertation research is composed of two parts: a theoretical part on semiparametric efficient estimation and an applied part in energy economics under different dynamic settings. The essays are related in terms of their applications as well as the way in which models are constructed and...
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Three essays on time series with nonstandard nonstationary models
Miller, James Isaac; Miller, James Isaac - 2005
In the first chapter; we consider nonlinear transformations of random walks driven by thick-tailed innovations with infinite means or variances. In particular, we show how nonlinearity, nonstationarity, and thick tails interact to generate persistency in memory, and we clearly demonstrate that...
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