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Financial constraints and small and medium enterprises : a review
Bakhtiari, Sasan; Breunig, Robert; Magnani, Elisabetta; … - 2020
Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164561
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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785728
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Internal finance and growth : microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms
Guariglia, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2008
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771888
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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico
Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581494
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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193982
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Do financial constraints affect the composition of workers in a firm?
Breunig, Robert; Hourani, Diana; Bakhtiari, Sasan; … - 2020
We study the relationship between financing constraints and the work- force composition of firms that employ both casual and non-casual workers. We use data on Australian firms from 2009-2014 and a more direct measure of firm financial constraint than previous studies. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171302
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Credit market constraints and labor market decisions
Del Boca, Daniela; Lusardi, Annamaria - 2002
market. We take the case of Italy, a country that experienced changes in the mortgage market brought about by the 1992 … European unification and other institutional shifts. These events make Italy a good laboratory to study the effects of … financial markets on the labor market. Using a simultaneous equation framework and household data from the Bank of Italy between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413857
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On the negative relationship between labor income uncertainty and homeownership : risk aversion vs. credit constraints
Diaz-Serrano, Luis (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002156793
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The economic effects of COVID-19 and credit constraints: evidence from Italian firms' expectations and plans
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Brianti, Marco; … - 2020
We investigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role played by credit constraints in the transmission mechanism, using a novel survey of expectations and plans of Italian firms, taken just before and after the outbreak. Most firms revise downward their expectations for...
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