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Determinants of Ghanaian banks’ credit to the “missing middle”: a supply side approach
Boadi, Isaac - In: International Journal of Bank Marketing 34 (2016) 6, pp. 924-939
to SMEs often referred to as the “Missing Middle.” Demands for bank credit by SMEs sector have been over flogged by … researchers in recent times. Determinants of banks’ credit to SMEs from the supply side using most recent data for both micro … determine banks credit to SMEs in Ghana. Bank-specific and country-specific data were collected from the financial statements of …
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Branding efforts and SME performance – an empirical investigation of variations across firm sizes and business sectors
Odoom, Raphael; Mensah, Priscilla; Asamoah, George - In: Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 19 (2017) 1, pp. 59-76
performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across enterprises sizes and business operating sectors. Design … used on a sample of 430 SMEs within an emerging market. Findings Principal component analysis identified four brand … marketing efforts relevant to the SMEs. These efforts were used in fluctuating extents among small-sized versus medium …
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Factors that hinder quality improvement programs’ implementation in SME
Mendes, Luís; Lourenço, Luís - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 21 (2014) 4, pp. 690-715
that hinder quality improvement programs’ implementation in SMEs, and second, to test if the level of importance attributed …
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Intellectual property rights protection and location of R&D by multinational enterprises
Sanyal, Prabuddha - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 5 (2004) 1, pp. 59-76
This paper explores the determinants of R&D location of US multinational enterprises (MNE). The major aim is to determine the impact of intellectual property rights protection on R&D investment by US multinationals in a sample of developed and developing economies. Some of the major findings...
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Growing Old Together: Firm Survival and Employee Turnover
Quintin, Erwan; Stevens, John J. - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 5 (2005) 1
Abstract Labor market outcomes such as turnover and earnings are correlated with employer characteristics, even after controlling for observable differences in worker characteristics. We argue that this systematic relationship constitutes strong evidence in favor of models where workers choose...
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Monopoly Pricing over Time and the Timing of Investments
Tarola, Ornella - In: Topics in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1
We consider a monopoly producing a good whose demand grows over time. Whatever the price policy which is adopted, the monopolist invests in order to meet the resulting demand growth. She can only invest in indivisible factory units. We identify the optimal price policy, and the ensuing optimal...
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Firm Size, Productivity, and Manager Wages: A Job Assignment Approach
Grossmann, Volker - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7 (2007) 1
Ability of managers and other nonproduction professionals is key for the productivity of firms. Hence, the assignment of heterogeneous nonproduction workers across firms determines the distribution of productivity. In turn, the transmission of productivity differences into profit differences --...
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Employment Effects of Innovation at the Firm Level
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 3, pp. 254-272
Summary This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm level using a uniquely long panel dataset of German manufacturing firms. The overall effect of innovations on employment often remains unclear in theoretical contributions due to reverse effects. We...
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Taxes and firm size: Political cost or political power?
Belz, Thomas; Hagen, Dominik von; Steffens, Christian - In: Journal of Accounting Literature 42 (2018) 1, pp. 1-28
Using a meta-regression analysis, we quantitatively review the empirical literature on the relation between effective tax rate (ETR) and firm size. Accounting literature offers two competing theories on this relation: The political cost theory, suggesting a positive size-ETR relation, and the...
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Cash‐flows, earnings, and time‐varying expected stock returns
Eugene Simlai, Prodosh - In: Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 29 (2013) 1, pp. 42-62
Purpose – The objective of this paper is to empirically evaluate alternative multifactor explanations of cash‐flows and earnings momentum portfolios. It aims to examine whether the common risk factors, which are related to firm level accounting characteristics, can reflect the behavior of...
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