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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment

Quader, Manzur - 2014

firm's investment is comparatively more sensitive to cash flow, but this sensitivity is negatively and significantly … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be … solely driven by measurement error in investment opportunity, but may still be interpreted as a consequence of imperfect …

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of the investment climate varies across sizes of firms. The …

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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe : Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Bruno, Randolph - 2014

This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...

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Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - 2012

Using a novel modeling approach, and cross-country firm level data for the textiles industry, we examine the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology allows us to estimate the marginal impact of institutional quality on productivity of each firm. Our results bring...

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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics : Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....

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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms

Weber, Andrea - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...

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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea - 2009

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...

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