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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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The Effects of Size-Based Regulation on Small Firms : Evidence from VAT Threshold

Harju, Jarkko - 2016

There is only limited evidence of how small firms respond to size-based regulations applied in various countries. We study this question by examining the value-added tax (VAT) threshold in Finland. We find sizable bunching of firms in the sales distribution just below the exemption threshold,...

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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses

Ghosal, Vivek - 2014

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regression-based forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate...

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Making (Small) Firms Happy. The Heterogeneous Effect of Trade Facilitation Measures

Fontagne, Lionel - 2016

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...

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SMEs and Access to Bank Credit : Evidence on the Regional Propagation of the Financial Crisis in the UK

Degryse, Hans - 2015

We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … and bank headquarters). However, during the crisis, we find that SMEs with in their vicinity banks that have stronger …

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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle

Beck, Thorsten - 2014

to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of …

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Shifts in Organizational Form under a Dual Income Tax System

Thoresen, Thor O. - 2008

Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel data that combine information from several public...

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Supply Chain Finance and SMEs : Evidence from International Factoring Data

Auboin, Marc - 2016

The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably … challenge for SMEs to accessing financing remains an important one; in many developing and emerging market economies, the … factoring has a positive effect in allowing SMEs to access international trade, in countries in which it is available. Factoring …

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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing : An Econometric Study

Facanha, Luis Otavio - 2012

The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...

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Voting in Small Committees

Balduzzi, Paolo - 2012

A small committee has to approve/reject a project with uncertain return. Members have different preferences: some are value-maximizers, others are biased towards approval. We focus on the efficient use of scarce information when communication is not guaranteed, and we provide insights on the...

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