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constraints on entry, but in addition it facilitates transfers of control of incumbent firms, from untalented to talented managers … deregulation, as it preserves incumbents' rents, while at the same time allowing the less efficient among them to transfer control … supporting future deregulations. Generally speaking, our model suggests that "Coasian" reforms improving the scope of private …
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We analyze a hand-collected sample of 166 prominent bribery cases, involving 107 publicly listed firms from 20 stock markets that have been reported to have bribed government officials in 52 countries worldwide during 1971-2007. We focus on the initial date of award of the contract for which the...
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Interpreting accruals as working capital investment, we hypothesize that firms rationally adjust their investment to respond to discount rate changes. Consistent with the optimal investment hypothesis, we document that (i) the predictive power of accruals for future stock returns increases with...
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, investment that has marginal product greater than the after-tax market real interest rate. Contrarily, taxes on distributed …
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sacrificed leisure time: households work more, and work more on the wage market when savings options improve. These results …
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bank accounts in their own names, while farmers in the control group were paid harvest proceeds in cash (the status quo …
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We review both the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship and financial frictions, with an emphasis on the heterogeneous and dynamic micro-level implications of financial frictions for macro development.
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Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to identify pertinent constraints to … model to firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and World Development Indicators for six countries at varying … degrees of economic development – three low income countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique), and three emerging market countries …
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of the country's financial system may also play a significant role. To address this question, a dynamic contract model is … control the cash flows of a firm plays an important role in the technology adoption decision. Can such a theory help to …
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