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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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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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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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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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Gendered access to finance : the role of team formation, idea quality, and implementation constraints in business evaluations
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023
We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male...
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Maturity shortening and market failure
Thierfelder, Felix - 2012
Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not uniform across maturities. As funding pressures were...
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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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Lending relationships in Germany : empirical evidence from survey data
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1998
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Intermittent versus dispatchable power sources : an integrated competitive assessment
Glenk, Gunther; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
The cost and revenue earnings potential of alternative power generation sources has shifted considerably in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and dispatchable generation technologies. We apply...
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