This paper exploits a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare programme in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity shocks change recipients' behaviour...

This paper exploits a welfare programme in Brazil to investigate the role of financial constraints, in opposition to general equilibrium mechanisms, in explaining entrepreneurship. A method for decomposing its impact into direct and indirect effects is presented. Instead of requiring two-level...

The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of previously non-tradable shares into tradable status. The reform was swift and changed investors' ability to trade corporate equities in a US$400 billion market. This paper examines the effects of the 2005 stock market reform on...

The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of nontradable stocks into tradable status. This paper examines the effects of stock markets on corporate outcomes exploiting multiple institutional features of the Chinese conversion program. Using a generalized propensity score...