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Hsieh, Chang-tai - 2014

and informal sector manufacturing firms in India, Indonesia, and Mexico, we document three facts. First, while there are a … from expanding. Third, we examine regulatory and tax notches in India, Indonesia, and Mexico of the sort often thought to …

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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Martin, Leslie A. - 2014

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi; Grossman, Philip Johnson; Houser, Daniel; … - 2022

Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …

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Firms' Exporting Behavior Under Quality Constraints

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2009

of our model in manufacturing establishment datasets for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia …

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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development a Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish; Asundi, Jai - 2021

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …

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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … on Italian SMEs from the quot;Survey on Manufacturing Firmsquot; conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period …, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …

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Health Insurance Reform and HMO Penetration in the Small Group Market

Buchmueller, Thomas C. - 2009

We use data from several national employer surveys conducted between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s to investigate the effect of state-level underwriting reforms on HMO penetration in the small-group health insurance market. We identify reform effects by exploiting cross-state variation in the...

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Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries : Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

Higgins, Matthew J. - 2015

Managers of private entrepreneurial firms face obstacles in raising capital both in placing a value on a firm and conveying value to investors. These problems are exacerbated when the firm is small, has limited assets (except for human capital) and has yet to have a lead product. In such cases...

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Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

Blanchflower, David G. - 2015

This paper uses data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to determine the extent to which minority-owned small businesses face constraints in the credit market beyond those faced by white-owned small businesses. First, we present qualitative evidence indicating that black-...

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success, suggesting that more entrepreneurial cities are...

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