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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104968
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. -- entrepreneurship ; monitoring costs ; credit constraint … ; household enterprises ; India …
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Subgroup analysis of investment constraints : evidence from Ugandan microenterprises
Seitz, Helke - 2020
Most microenterprises barely grow beyond subsistence level, as profitable investments are not realized due to barriers like credit, savings, and managerial constraints. Using panel data, this study identifies subgroups that would benefit by an intervention aiming to alleviate constraints. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384618
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Access to Credit by Firms and Sovereign Credit Rating Stability
Riaz, Yasir - 2019
This paper studies the impact of the number of sovereign credit rating and outlook changes on the access to credit by firms. The data sample consists of 127,000 firms from 139 countries surveyed by World Bank over the period, 2006 to 2016. An ordered logit model is used as a primary tool for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859874
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Subgroup analysis of investment constraints: Evidence from Ugandan microenterprises
Seitz, Helke - 2020
Most microenterprises barely grow beyond subsistence level, as profitable investments are not realized due to barriers like credit, savings, and managerial constraints. Using panel data, this study identifies subgroups that would benefit by an intervention aiming to alleviate constraints. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388467
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Financial constraints, risk taking and firm performance: Recent evidence from microfinance clients in Tanzania
Boermans, Martijn; Willebrands, Daan - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2012
Financial constraints and risk taking are two well-established determinants of firm performance, however, no research analyzes how these variables are connected in the context of a high risk environment. Using data from microfinance clients in Tanzania, we derive a novel financial constraints...
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Banks credit and productivity growth in the EU
Hassan, Fadi; Di Mauro, Filippo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2016
Financial institutions are key to allocate capital to its most productive uses. In order to examine the relationship between bank credit and firm-level productivity in the context of different financial markets set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping generations of entrepreneurs under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574057
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Banks credit and productivity growth
Hassan, Fadi; Di Mauro, Filippo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2017
Financial institutions are key to allocate capital to its most productive uses. In order to examine the relationship between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping generations of entrepreneurs under complete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636916
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The impact of innovation on business development : the example of moderate innovators and the Visegrad Group countries
Jabłońska, Małgorzata - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 27 (2024) 1, pp. 7-29
the entrepreneurship rate in a group of moderate innovator countries. Using the Pearson linear correlation, the author … relationships with the entrepreneurship rate in the V4 and among other economies classified as Moderate Innovators (according to SII … the V4 countries' entrepreneurship rate. In other countries, the variables derived from the investment attractiveness of …
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