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Targeted bidders in government tenders
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2022
A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To...
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Macro-scaled microcredit and constraints on household business development : evidence from northern Thailand
Archawa Paweenawat; Narapong Srivisal - 2021
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Cyclicality of SME lending and government involvement in banks
Behr, Patrick; Foos, Daniel; Norden, Lars - 2015
on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs …
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Lending relationships in Germany : empirical evidence from survey data
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1998
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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
In this paper, we study the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
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The impact of German public support transfers on firm finance : evidence from the Covid-19 crisis
Gärtner, Leo; Marek, Philipp - 2022
The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...
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Basel III and SME bank finance in Germany
Marek, Philipp; Stein, Ingrid - 2022
This paper examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of minimum risk-based capital requirements and the introduction of the leverage ratio. The announcement of stricter risk-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized...
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Support for the SME supporting factor : multi-country empirical evidence on systematic risk factor for SME loans
Dietsch, Michel; Düllmann, Klaus; Fraisse, Henri; … - 2016
consistency of own funds requirements with the riskiness of SME. In both the French and the German sample, results suggest that … the relative differences between the capital requirements for large corporates and those for SME (in other words the … capital relief for SME) are lower in the Basel III framework than implied by empirically estimated asset correlations. Results …
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The effect of discretion on procurement performance
Coviello, Decio; Guglielmo, Andrea; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2016
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The Brexit vote, productivity growth and macroeconomic adjustments in the United Kingdom
Broadbent, Ben; Di Pace, Federico; Drechsel, Thomas; … - 2019
The UK economy has experienced significant macroeconomic adjustments following the 2016 referendum on its withdrawal from the European Union. This paper develops and estimates a small open economy model with tradable and non-tradable sectors to characterise these adjustments. We demonstrate that...
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