In a product market with uncertain demand, we examine a distribution channel consisting of one manufacturer and one capital-constrained retailer. The retailer may fund its business by borrowing credit either from a competitive bank market or from the manufacturer, provided it is also to the...

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

This paper involves the multi-mode capital-constrained project payment scheduling problem, where the objective is to assign activity modes and payments so as to maximize the net present value (NPV) of the contractor under the constraint of capital availability. In the light of different payment...