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Bank credit, trade credit or no credit: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study, we use data from the SSBFs to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the U.S. More specifically, we first analyze firms that do and do not use credit; and then analyze why some firms use trade credit while others use bank credit. We find that one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615030
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Guanxi relationships for access to Chinese business network
Musso, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
To operate in China requires a thorough knowledge of the cultural-political conditions that characterize it and which may result in trade barriers with the western countries. Culture is critical to the development of business relations in China, and the behavior of firms can not be properly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147605
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Are oil, gold and the euro inter-related? time series and neural network analysis
Malliaris, A.G.; Malliaris, Mary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates inter-relationships among the price behavior of oil, gold and the euro using time series and … inter-relationships among themselves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370818
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Not all employees are Real Professionals
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, skills, attitude, efforts and relationships within the organization and to the outer-sets as well which might include as one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401068
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Closing the gap: the link between social capital and microfinance services
Lopez-Rodriguez, Patricia; De la Torre Garcia, Rodolfo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The social capital has strengthened the solidarity funds when the legal mechanisms and institutions for monitoring and assistance would not have been present. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of social capital on productivity and performance of the Mexican solidarity funds. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568366
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Social Networks and Supply chain Management in Rural Areas: A Case Study Focusing on Organic Olive Oil
Medicamento, Umberto; Degennaro, Bernardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
key element, and enables us to understand better the competitive performances of firms. The relationships of firms, among … social relationships, the social network (Costabile, 2001). The goods present in a context are not enough to explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623304
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Une analyse qualitative de l'offre statistique de l'INSÉÉ : travaux préparatoires pour la construction d'une banque de données d'emploi régional
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We often present data bank building (output-data calculation) as an only quantitative work. We think that economist should consider the context where his input-data were built, before to use them in his own data bank (we suggest to make an institutional and a bibliometric analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835539
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Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment?
Claar, Victor V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...
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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835894
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Active Measures for Stimulating the Employment of Labour Force and its Impact in the Gorj County
Ecobici, N; Paliu-Popa, L - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In Romania the government tried to stimulate the employment trough active measures since 2002. Therefore, there are two … types of measures: one that attempts to increase the chances of employment of the persons that are looking to work. These … courses, benefits granting to the unemployed who take up employment before the end of the period of entitlement to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835924