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Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction.
This book uses newly collected data with nearly 2000 observations across Africa and Latin America of SME owner/operators to examine if psychometric tools can distinguish the good ones from the bad ones. This book fully describes the development problem and how psychometric tools can help solve it. M...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: Innovations in Poverty Reduction; This Series; This Brief; Quo Vadis?; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: The Development Problem; Are Banks Doing Their Job?; Returns to Capital Among Small Businesses; Why Don't Banks Lend More?; Why Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Lending is Different; A Day in the Life of the Lender; A Day in the Life of the Borrower; Towards a Solution: Evaluate the Individual; Chapter 2: A Psychology-Enabled Solution to Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance; Psychometric Tools for Employment Selection; Psychometric Studies of Entrepreneurship.
- PersonalityIntelligence; Integrity; Chapter 3: Methodology; Empirical Strategy: Design Overview; Sample; Outcome Measures; Procedure; Chapter 4: Results and Discussion; Identifying the Best Entrepreneurs: Regression Analysis; Overall Predictive Power; Country-Level Comparison; Overcoming Over-fitting in Small Sample Sizes; An Innovative Approach; Chapter 5: Conclusion; Implications for Practice: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab; Implications for Future Research; References; Appendices; Appendix 1 Detailed Bayesian Specification; Appendix 2.