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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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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
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050469
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Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?
Holden, Steinar - 2011
We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host of factors that influence the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124098