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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 …

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SMEs and Access to Bank Credit : Evidence on the Regional Propagation of the Financial Crisis in the UK

Degryse, Hans - 2015

We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks' financial condition before and during the financial crisis. Employing unique data on the geographical location of all bank branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit...

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Is Emission Intensity or Output U-Shaped in the Strictness of Environmental Policy?

Dijkstra, Bouwe - 2014

In a model where firms face a continuous choice of how much to invest in environmental innovation, we show that an ever stricter environmental policy does not always lead to ever cleaner production methods and ever lower production of polluting goods. It does so when the abatement technology is...

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Voluntary Emission Reductions, Social Rewards, and Environmental Policy

Rauscher, Michael - 2021

Social norms and intrinsic motivations lead to environmentally friendly behaviour even in the absence of environmental policy. This paper looks at the interactions of social norms and environmental regulation in their impact on individual behaviour. People obtain social rewards for voluntary...

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Even Small Trade Costs Restore Efficiency in Tax Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2010

We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the underprovision of public goods. Instead, there is a...

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...

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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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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 …

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Shifts in Organizational Form under a Dual Income Tax System

Thoresen, Thor O. - 2008

Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel data that combine information from several public...

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