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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"entrepreneurial finance"”.
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance
This dissertation consists of an introduction and three original essays. The first essay provides causal evidence that managers extrapolate when making real investment decisions. Managers of small, weather-sensitive businesses increase investment in response to temporary and weather-induced …
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Essays in entrepreneurial finance
… through which the financing environment impacts entrepreneurial activity. The first two essays in the dissertation exploit institutional reforms - one in Denmark and another in the US - that changed the financing environment for new businesses to study how they impacted individuals' entry and …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
… consists of three empirical studies in entrepreneurial finance around the world. The first essay empirically compares the impact of entrepreneurship on GDP, unemployment, exports, and patents by examining three international datasets. The findings of this essay point to institutional and …
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance : small firms and their banks
… essays draw on two UK datasets: UK survey of SME Finance (2007) and UK SME Finance Monitor (2011-2016).
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Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis - Entrepreneurial Finance in the EU27: State Interventions, Zombie Firms, and Sectoral Performance
Between 2017 and 2023, I worked in the Corporate Lending and Underwriting Department of K&H Bank, where I dealt with financial statement analysis and loan proposals on a daily basis. A central part of my job was to conduct credit risk assessment and analyze the financial situation of companies in …
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Entrepreneurial financing decisions, venture capital ownership and bargaining power
It is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurial companies play a key role in shaping a local economy. Entrepreneurial companies are a source of growth and innovation for an industry and provide jobs for the local population. However, entrepreneurs of high growth oriented companies rarely have the …
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The informal funding market for new businesses in the United Kingdom
… Despite being a widespread source of small-scale finance for starting businesses, it has not been investigated holistically both from the demand and supply perspectives. This thesis brings the two sides together at four levels of analysis. Individual experiences of both entrepreneurs and their …
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Finanza Imprenditoriale: Teoria del Portafoglio e Costo del Capitale
… the differences between traditional corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance, we focus on the biases occurring when traditional finance techniques are applied to the entrepreneurial context. In particular, using the portfolio theory framework, we determine the degree of …
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Venture capital y su valor añadido a los emprendedores: modelo de análisis
The present research belongs to the field of entrepreneurial finance, an emergent area within the corporative finances that is in the crossroads of these with the entrepreneurship. Both issues have a growing importance and relevance, in the academic field and also in the social and economic …
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… financing behaviors. The state-year level of entrepreneurial activities is examined through quadratic regression analyses. Results show that state-level free market policies and social safety-net spending have an inverted U-shaped relationship with restaurant entrepreneurs' crowdfunding …
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Entrepreneurial external resource acquisition and exit via IPO
This dissertation focuses on entrepreneurial finance and exit strategies via IPO. Three quantitative studies have been conducted based on a dataset of entrepreneurial firms listed for the first time in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) between 2002 and 2012. Initial Public Offering (IPO), as a major …
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The impact of FNGO services on the performance of micro and small enterprises: empirical evidence from the Volta Region, Ghana
… Organisations (FNGOs) are regulated microfinance institutions (MFIs) that operate with the social welfare logic in the delivery of Microcredit (MC) and Entrepreneurship Training (ET) to the poor in Ghana. The provision of these two capitals (MC and ET) is aimed at supporting the poor to …
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The Influence of Institutional Context on Crowdfunding Adoption for MSME Financing in Nigeria
… inclusive pathway to increase MSMEs’ access to finance, in the face of persistent funding challenges. However, adoption in developing economies has been slow necessitating the exploration of factors to promote it. Hence, the factors that influences MSMEs’ adoption of crowdfunding remains an …
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Venturing into public good: from venture capital to the creation of state-supported venture philanthropy and its implications for third sector financing
Over the last three decades, scholars in management, policy, and geography have examined the growing economic, social, and spatial impact of the financial sector. Venture capital firms have been a focus, generating a contested but deep literature around the roles of such “value-adding” capital …