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Easing credit for small firms amidst expansionary policy shifts : Iran 2005-2013

Amini, Amirhossein; Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 98 (2025), pp. 1-37

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Too much of a good thing? : the macro implications of massive firm entry

Desiere, Sam; Toniolo, Tiziano; Bijnens, Gert - 2025

Policies supporting small businesses are popular among policymakers but often criticised by economists for their potential to distort the economy. This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of a unique policy that subsidises the first employee. Empirically, we find that the policy led to a...

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From ethnic prejudice to employment discrimination : the role of small firms as mediators

Kertesi, Gábor; Köllő, János; Károlyi, Róbert; … - 2025

supported an openly anti-Roma far-right party and, at the same time, small firms had a substantial share in the local economy … breadwinners in most Roma families, survive robustness checks and confrontation with alternative explanations. Since small firms …

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Too much of a good thing? : the macro implications of massive firm entry

Desiere, Sam; Toniolo, Tiziano; Bijnens, Gert - 2025

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015410669

How Big Is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Subsidies

Brown, J. David; Denes, Matthew; Duchin, Ran; Hackney, John - 2024

decade. We exploit quasi-random variation in the implementation of size standard increases to study the effects on small … firms, subsidy allocation, and industry outcomes using Census Bureau microdata. Following size standard increases, revenues …

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