Arbeitspapier

Property Rights, Finance, and Entrepreneurship

Is investment constrained more by insecure property rights or by limited external finance? For five transition economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union we find that weak property rights limit the reinvestment of profits in startup ma nufacturing firms. Access to credit does not appear to explain differences in investment. At least in the early stages of post-communist reform, retained earnings appear to have been enough to finance the investments that managers wanted to make.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 212

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Johnson, Simon
McMillan, John
Woodruff, Christopher
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
1999

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Johnson, Simon
  • McMillan, John
  • Woodruff, Christopher
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 1999

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