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External financing and economic activity in the euro area : why are bank loans special?
Aldasoro, Iñaki; Unger, Robert - 2017
Using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) identified with a mix of sign and zero restrictions, we show that a restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes about even though flows of other sources of...
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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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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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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 commitment role of equity financing
Fahn, Matthias; Wamser, Georg; Merlo, Valeria - 2017
Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...
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Debt or equity? : how firms in developing countries choose
Glen, Jack D. - 1994
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R&D investment under financing constraints
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2020
This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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The signaling value of legal form in debt financing
Bracht, Felix; Mahieu, Jeroen; Vanhaverbeke, Steven - 2023
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Patent collateral and access to debt
Bracht, Felix; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2022 - This version: August 3, 2022
We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value reducing information asymmetries between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of...
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