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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - In: The journal of finance : the journal of the American … 72 (2017) 3, pp. 1039-1080
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The rise of domestic capital markets for corporate financing
Abraham, Facundo; Cortina, Juan J.; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2019
During the past decades, firms from emerging economies have significantly increased the amount of financing obtained in capital markets. Whereas the literature argues that international markets have been an important contributor to this process, the role of domestic markets is mostly unknown. By...
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Basel III implementation and SME financing : evidence for emerging markets and developing economies
Fišera, Boris; Horváth, Roman; Melecký, Martin - 2019
This paper examines the effect of Basel III implementation on the access to finance of small and medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167938
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Free riding in loan approvals : evidence from SME lending in Peru
Arraiz, Irani; Bruhn, Miriam; Roth, Benjamin N.; … - 2019
This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers' screening efforts. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, the study finds that competing lenders responded to additional loan approvals by issuing approvals of their own....
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Micro-equity for microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
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Interest rate caps : the theory and the practice
Ferrari, Aurora; Masetti, Oliver; Ren, Jiemin - 2018
Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes and, according to their rationale, ceilings can affect a small segment or the overall...
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Does credit competition affect small-firm finance?
Rice, Tara N.; Strahan, Philip E. - In: The journal of finance : the journal of the American … 65 (2010) 3, pp. 861-889
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Empirical study on the impact of digital finance on commercial credit allocation in SMEs
Lin, Baoguo; Dong, Xueqin - In: Finance research letters 61 (2024), pp. 1-9
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MSME Finance Gap : Assessment of the Shortfalls and Opportunities in Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Markets
International Finance Corporation - 2017
to finance, emphasizing their dependence on credit and cash flows. This study presents a new approach to the estimation …. It estimates both supply of and demand for MSME finance on a global scale, which has never been done in a comprehensive … categories, and applies this benchmark to MSMEs in developing countries. It estimates the MSME finance gap as the difference …
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Expanding Access to Financing for Micro, Small, and Medium-Size Enterprises in Russia by Leveraging Innovative Financial Solutions : Policy Note
Gutierrez, Eva - 2019
, which emphasizes the need of improving SME access to finance, along with other critical factors for SME growth. The … access to finance, as a part of the overall government objective to increase the contribution of SMEs to the Russian economy … (2) the evolving role of the SME development institutions in creating new markets for SME finance and crowding in private …
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