Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs: Human Capital, Financial Capital, And Network Structure Relationships

Equity Capital and Entrepreneurs

H ow do smalland medium-sized firms raise external equity capital? In this paper, I describe two markets that entrepreneurs of smalland medium-sized enterprises use in the United States to raise equity: the organized private equity market and the market for angel capital. Both markets are important sources of equity capital for smalland mediumsized firms. However, until recently, not much was k...

Financial regimes , capital structure , and growth

We develop a growth model with endogenous technological progress in which the financial sector plays an explicit role. Thereby we discuss the role of different financial regimes in the growth process. We contrast a bank-dominated financial system with a market-dominated system. In the first one a financial intermediary (a bank) is able to solve informational problems, however, at a cost. There ...

Financial integration and emerging markets capital structure

0378-4266/$ see front matter 2010 Published by doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.017 ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Business an Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, College G +353 1 8961522; fax: +353 1 6799503. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B.M. Lucey), qzha This paper investigates the impact of country-level financial integration on corporate financing choices in emerging econom...

Crowdfunding as a Capital Source for Women Entrepreneurs

Gender Specifics in Entrepreneurs’ Human and Social Capital

Many scholars ask—either implicitly or explicitly—why anyone should study entrepreneurship. Data are difficult to obtain, theory is underdeveloped, and many findings to date are the same as those obtained in other areas of business, although differences in legitimacy and value as well as in the practical and theoretical importance of studying entrepreneurship exist. However, since the publicati...