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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380414
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045173
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249680
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850504
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437907
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630098
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440418
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435290
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Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Maslov, Egor; Sørensen, Bent E. - 2019
Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119808
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Local capital scarcity and small firm growth : evidence from real estate booms in China
Hau, Harald; Ouyang, Difei - 2019
In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
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