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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship

Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021

This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …

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International trade and corporate market power

Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus; Yang, Yuanchen - 2020

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on a large firm-level dataset, tariff data by sector and agreggate indicators of international...

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Some policy lessons from country applications of the DIG and DIGNAR models

Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Melina, Giovanni; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2019

Over the past seven years, the DIG and DIGNAR models have complemented the IMF and World Bank debt sustainability framework (DSF) analysis, over 65 country applications. They have provided useful insights in the context of program and surveillance work, based on qualitative and quantitative...

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Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?

Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Joanis, Marcelin - 2019

This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal...

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Remittance concentration and volatility : evidence from 72 developing countries

Hosny, Amr - 2020

This paper contributes to the literature by introducing the role of geographic concentration of the source of remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of...

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The role of e-government in promoting Foreign Direct Investment inflows

Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2021

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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

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Bankruptcy technology, finance, and entrepreneurship

Souza Sobrinho, Nelson Ferreira - 2017

technology to deal with private debt distress (bankruptcy technology), and obstacles to entrepreneurship (high costs of doing … protection, and eliminate obstacles to entrepreneurship …

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Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution

Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2002

A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...

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Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity?

Gordon, Roger H. - 1997

When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded...

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