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Targeted Business Incentives and Local Labor Markets
Targeted Business Incentives Local Labor Markets
2016/3/9
This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of geographically targeted business incentives on local labor markets. Unlike elsewhere in the United States, enterprise zone (...
What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
business training consulting randomized experiments firm productivity
2012/10/19
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of
enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of
evaluations of th...
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
business training female self-employment randomized experiment business start-up trajectory of treatment effects
2012/10/19
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most
commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your
Business (SIYB) program. ...
Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data
tax incidence profit taxation wages asymmetric effects
2012/10/23
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are...
Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
bank credit financial intermediation firm heterogeneity and defaults interest rate spread real financial linkages
2012/10/23
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are...
Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
monopsony labor market frictions business cycles
2012/10/24
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture onl...
China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
China GVAR Great Recession emerging markets international business cycle Latin America trade linkages
2012/10/25
The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages betwe...
The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
business networks agency costs external firm financing bank loans transition economies endogeneity
2012/10/30
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minim...
Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
trust institutions confidence survey data congress banks big business media courts
2012/10/31
We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects ...
Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
business cycles data mining evaluating forecasts macroeconomic forecasting new products transportation production forecasting nowcasting telemetry
2012/11/1
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The ...
Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
firm death firm heterogeneity business conditions and firm productivity trade integration
2012/11/1
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embed...
Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
technology computers cell-phones business obstacles Kenya firms female owners
2012/11/2
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. Th...
Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
external knowledge face-to-face interactions international business visits
2012/11/2
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-fac...
Policymaking Gone Awry:The Labor Market Regulations of the Doing Business Indicators
Labor Market Regulations Business Indicators
2009/11/6
The debate on labor market institutions and how they affect
employment and economic performance remains controversial. Since
the 1980s, it has been argued that Europe’s lackluster economic
performa...
Michigan's Business Taxes and Economic Development: Possible Reforms
Business Taxes Economic Development Possible Reforms
2009/11/5
There is a majority view among economists on the effects of state and local business
taxes on economic development. As stated by Wasylenko (1997), which in turn largely draws on
Bartik's (1991) revi...