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development and social welfare in relation to the present and prospective discussions on competition policy in the WTO, UNCTAD …, OECD and other fora. Although this is the immediate backdrop for an examination of competition policy in relation to … for developing countries which emerge from the theoretical and empirical analysis of competition policy and economic …
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This paper questions the existing notion of competition prevalent in economic theory. It is shown that the prevalent … idea of competition is incompatible with economic development. Fair competition, this paper argues, ought to be understood … competition. …
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We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse … relationship between market competition and agency costs. We believe that our findings support the hypothesis that competition may …
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Freight Transport Time (FTT) is an important resource for manufacturing companies, firstly as a cost driver of logistics processes and secondly as a key factor of customer satisfaction. Yet, there is a lot of controversy between researchers regarding the strength of the link between changes in...
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Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
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Along with continuing changes in the tax law, the requirements to the organization of small business accounting are changing, too. The article provides the analysis of normative legal documents governing small business accounting. The accounting requirements for small businesses of general and...
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competition and lack of outlets, as well as excess of taxes and regulations. …
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We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271240
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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