In this paper we investigate the link between entrepreneurship and financial constraints. We develop a dynamic partial equilibrium model of an individual utility maximization that predicts that the person is more likely to start her business when financial constraints are eased. We test this...

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

It is still an open question what kind of smart capital relational investors actually supply. We divide smart capital into several components and conduct a survey among 85 German suppliers of start-up finance. The results show that the degree of smartness is determined by the financial product...

Für die Funktionsfähigkeit des Marktes für Unternehmensfinanzierung ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, welche Eigentumsrechte der Finanzier ex post geltend machen kann. Eine explizite vertragliche Einschränkung der Kontroll- und Aneignungsrechte mindert die Finanzierungsbereitschaft...

Staatliche Unternehmen allgemein und speziell öffentliche Kreditinstitute werden oft skeptisch gesehen. Ein Grund ist diemöglicherweise bewirkteWettbewerbsverzerrung.Dieser Aspekt wurde beispielsweise in Zusammenhang mit staatlichen Garantien für die früheren Landesbanken intensiv...

The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting, directly and indirectly, economies throughout the world. While the pandemic is far from over, countries are searching for ways to enhance a quick recovery of their economies. Among others, the downturn is hampering the access of firms to the financial means...

The purpose of this work is to introduce one of the most promising among recently developed statistical techniques – the support vector machine (SVM) – to corporate bankruptcy analysis. An SVM is implemented for analysing such predictors as financial ratios. A method of adapting it to...

Graphical data representation is an important tool for model selection in bankruptcy analysis since the problem is highly non-linear and its numerical representation is much less transparent. In classical rating models a convenient representation of ratings in a closed form is possible reducing...

In the era of Basel II a powerful tool for bankruptcy prognosis is vital for banks. The tool must be precise but also easily adaptable to the bank's objections regarding the relation of false acceptances (Type I error) and false rejections (Type II error). We explore the suitability of Smooth...