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Euro Area SMEs Under Financial Constraints : Belief or Reality?
Artola, Concha - 2013
reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092075
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs : The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
de la Torre, Augusto - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159698
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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057269
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Innovation in the Supply and Procurement of Rig Services
Osmundsen, Petter - 2014
Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046580
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055566
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The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change
Dao, Thang; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2022
We consider how the demographic transition has been shaped in regions that are the least developed and the most vulnerable to climate change. Environmental conditions affect intra-household labor allocation because of the impacts on local resources under the poor infrastructural system. Climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243472
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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743448
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Euro Area SMEs under Financial Constraints: Belief or Reality?
Artola, Concha; Genre, Veronique - CESifo - 2011
reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371348
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'By a Silken Thread' : Regional Banking Integration and Pathways to Financial Development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias - 2013
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087279
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Banking and Industrialization
Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014356