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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100506
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International Trade, Risk and the Role of Banks
Niepmann, Friederike - 2014
Banks play a critical role in international trade by providing trade finance products that reduce the risk of exporting. This paper employs two new data sets to shed light on the magnitude and structure of this business, which, as we show, is highly concentrated in a few large banks. The two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054021
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No Guarantees, No Trade : How Banks Affect Export Patterns
Niepmann, Friederike - 2014
This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The identification strategy exploits variation in the importance of banks as providers of letters of credit across countries. The larger a U.S. bank's share of the trade finance market...
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The Impact of Basel III on Trade Finance : The Potential Unintended Consequences of the Leverage Ratio
Auboin, Marc - 2014
Trade finance, particularly in the form of short-term letters of credit has received favourable capital treatment new Basel III rules. However, concerns have been expressed over the potential negative “unintended consequences” of the newly created leverage ratio for trade. This paper offers...
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Improving the Availability of Trade Finance in Developing Countries : An Assessment of Remaining Gaps
Auboin, Marc - 2016
While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might have been worsened during and after the global financial crisis. In fact, there is a consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996201
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159698