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Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?

Dinger, Valeriya; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we investigate whether banks that borrow from other banks have lower risk levels. We concentrate on a large sample of Central and Eastern European banks which allows us to explore the impact of interbank lending when exposures are long-term and interbank borrowers are small banks....

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Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries

Brown, Martin; Jappelli, Tullio; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate whether information sharing among banks has affected credit market performance in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, using a large sample of firm-level data. Our estimates show that information sharing is associated with improved availability...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a...

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The Taxation of Entrepreneurial Income in a Transition Economy: Issues Raised by Experience in Poland

MEP, Grabowski; Maciej, Dariusz; Smith, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …

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Banking (Conservatively) With Optimists

Manove, Michael; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …

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Growing like China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …

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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …

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Taxation and Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

value of mature firms determines the incentives of entrepreneurs to start up new firms and of venture capitalists to finance … capital-backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important …

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Debt or Equity? The Role of Venture Capital in Financing the New Economy in Germany

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using a dataset of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this Paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...

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Does the New Economy Need New Governance? Ownership, Knowledge and Performance

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...

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