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Euro area SMEs under financial constraints : belief or reality?

Artola, Concha; Genre, Véronique - 2011

reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …

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European funds and green public procurement

Nicolas, Ruben; Titl, Vitezslav; Schotanus, Fredo - 2024

The European Commission co-funds public projects through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to stimulate the sustainable economic development of EU Member States. The ESIF budget is about 90 billion euros annually and ESIF beneficiaries are explicitly encouraged to increase...

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Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2014

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

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How much do cohesive and diversified networks improve financial access for small business?

Vu Thi Hong Nhung; Le, Chau - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 4, pp. 380-396

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …

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Corruption under austerity

Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP led to a decrease in both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per...

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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing

Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012

Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more...

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Small and medium sized European firms and energy efficiency measures : a probit analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2022

This paper investigates the factors (such as different sources of financing, energy audits and internal monitoring activities) affecting the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt energy efficiency measures (EEMs). For this purpose, a Probit model is estimated...

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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023

This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...

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Procurement centralization in the EU : the case of Italy

Decarolis, Francesco - 2018

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