Summary This paper investigates the borrowing behavior of 2,900 French and 1,300 German firms over the 1987-95 period. Both samples based on data sets of the Banque de France and the Deutsche Bundesbank not only include large but also small and medium-sized enterprises. Applying GMM techniques,...

This paper investigates the borrowing behavior of 2,900 French and 1,300 German firms over the 1987-95 period. Both samples based on data sets of the Banque de France and the Deutsche Bundesbank not only include large but also small and medium-sized enterprises. Applying GMM techniques, we...

[fre] Entre 1987 et 1995, les taux d’endettement des entreprises industrielles françaises et allemandes présentent deux différences importantes. Au cours de cette période, ce taux connaît une forte baisse en France alors qu’il est relativement stable en Allemagne. Le taux...