| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9100
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| DP9100 Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development |
| Christopher Udry; Dean Karlan
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| 发表日期 | 2012-08-26
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus limit learning about the profitability of alternative firm sizes. The model shows how lack of information about one?s own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one?s type, may lead to short-run negative expected returns to investments on average, with some outliers succeeding. To test the model we put forward first a motivating experiment from Ghana, and second a small meta-analysis of other experiments. In the Ghana experiment, we provide inputs to microenterprises, specifically financial capital (a cash grant) and managerial capital (consulting services), to catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and take the advice, but both lead to lower profits on average. In the long run, they revert back to their prior scale of operations. The small meta analysis includes results from 18 other experiments in which either capital or managerial capital were relaxed, and find mixed support for this theory. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
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| 关键词 | Business training
Consulting
Credit constraints
entrepreneurship
Managerial capital
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9100
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537933
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Christopher Udry,Dean Karlan. DP9100 Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development. 2012.
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