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Information Sharing and Information Acquisition: Ownership and Coverage
Karapetyan, Artashes; Stacescu, Bogdan - 2011
We examine the conditions required for the existence of private credit bureaus, their ownership and coverage. Our model implies that bank consortia will most likely be preferred by banks, but that they will lead to restricted coverage. Independent credit bureaus have higher coverage, but they...
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A class of N-player Colonel Blotto games with multidimensional private information
Ewerhart, Christian; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2021
In this paper, we study N-player Colonel Blotto games with incomplete information about battlefield valuations. Such games arise in job markets, research and development, electoral competition, security analysis, and conflict resolution. For M Ï N + 1 battlefields, we identify a Bayes-Nash...
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Why Do Firms Pay for Liquidity Provision in Limit Order Markets?
Skjeltorp, Johannes A.; Ødegaard, Bernt Arne - 2010
In recent years, a number of electronic limit order markets have reintroduced market makers for some securities (Designated Market Makers). This trend has mainly been initiated by financial intermediaries and listed firms themselves, without any regulatory pressure. In this paper we ask why...
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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Neri, Marcelo; Ulyssea, … - 2014
promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …
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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the great recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES
Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …
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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018
performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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Times are a changin'? The emergence of new firms and rank persistence
Schneck, Stefan - 2018
Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show that the higher growth rates indeed translate into upward mobility within the firm size distribution. Young firms are therefore not only able to catch up, but also to grow larger...
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The Bright but Right View? New Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggest that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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