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difficulties on firms' investment, performance, and growth during normal periods and periods of external shocks using a regression … financing conditions, controlling for other major investment barriers. We use survey data collected from the first to the eighth … vintage of the European Investment Survey (EIBIS). The empirical evidence shows that micro and small firms and leading …
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examine this hypothesis, we used the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach to analyze panel data from 2006 to 2017. The …
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Government policies that attempt to alleviate credit constraints faced by small and young firms are widely adopted across countries. We study the aggregate impact of such targeted credit subsidies in a heterogeneous firm model with collateral constraints and endogenous entry and exit. A defining...
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towards banks contracts the amount and maturity of corporate debt and leads firms to slow investment and forego growth …
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' investment, growth and financial constraints. Combining propensity score matching with a difference-in-differences estimator, our …
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We study the leverage of U.S. firms over their life cycles and the connection between firm leverage, firm growth, and aggregate shocks. We construct a new dataset that combines private and public firms’ balance sheets with firm-level data from U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business...
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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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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
This study conducts an empirical investigation of the effects of access to finance on the growth of firms in African countries. In order to achieve this, we made use of a new rich enterprise-level data set from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys and employ both subjective and objective measures...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of managerial optimism on corporate investment regarding … often overconfident an effort is made to highlight the effect of this psychological bias on managerial investment decision … – making. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology is based on the approach that the investment-cash flow …
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