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Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies : Is There a Threshold Effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level : Evidence from SBA Loans

Brown, J. David - 2015

We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...

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Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises : A Review

Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2020

Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We … impact of financial constraints on key outcomes: employment, productivity and wages. We review key policy debates and …

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Access to Finance Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020

In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...

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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2009

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms …Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios …

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2015

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ …

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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States

Winters, John V. - 2014

The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the state if the college graduates leave the state after...

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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010

, especially for males and in the physical sciences in the U.S. A higher rate of growth of non-farm productivity encouraged PhD …

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