Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
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 informatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2138392