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Access to digital finance : equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms

Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2023

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount...

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Innovation capabilities and financing constraints of family firms

Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas; Solórzano … - 2015

Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or process innovations. Based on the CDM framework,...

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The effect of personalized feedback on small enterprises' finances in Uganda

Grohmann, Antonia; Menkhoff, Lukas; Seitz, Helke - 2019

This RCT examines the effect of a new style finance training during which participants are given personalized feedback …

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Don't stop me now: the impact of credit market fragmentation on firms' financing constraints

Bremus, Franziska; Neugebauer, Katja - 2017

This paper investigates how the withdrawal of banks from their cross-border business impacted the borrowing costs of European firms since the crisis. We combine aggregate information on total and cross-border credit with firm-level survey data for the period 2010 - 2014. We find that the decline...

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Financing patterns of innovative SMEs and the perception of innovation barriers in Germany

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014

different patterns of public and private sources of R&D finance, such as own capital, grants, private and subsidized loans. The …-sized R&D companies (often with external equity investment) that have to finance the market introduction of innovations …

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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Werwatz, Axel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : crosscountry and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep K. (contributor); … - 2008

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending …, and later in transition entry and domestic competitive pressure increases. In finance, the increasing reliance on retained … sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …

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Does the tenure of private equity investment improve the performance of European firms?

Badunenko, Oleg; Baum, Christopher F.; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2010

; corporate finance …

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Caught in the US subprime meltdown 2007/2008 : Germany loses its wallet but escapes major Harm

Kooths, Stefan (contributor); Rieger, Matthias (contributor) - 2008

The ongoing financial crisis so far cost the German financial sector 38 billion Euros due to losses on its mortgage-related subprime bank exposures. This paper looks for the impact of these losses on the real sector of the economy. First, the financial sector is looked at as part of the overall...

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Firms in (Green) Public Procurement : financial strength indicators' impact on contract awards and its repercussion on financial strength

Baum, Christopher F.; Kordestani, Arash; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2021

We examine whether the financial strength of companies, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is causally linked to the award of a public procurement contract (PP), especially in the environmentally friendly “green” area (GPP). For this purpose, we build a combined...

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