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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada
Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing … SMEs. The paper also finds the market for housing finance to be highly advanced and sophisticated. However, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769089
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Impact of Trade on Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small?
Saito, Mika - 2006
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What Role Can Financial Policies Play in Revitalizing SMEs in Japan?.
Lam, Raphael W - 2012
). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets show that many SMEs have faced structural challenges of high … Performance of SMEs, by Risk Groups -- 5. Japan: Slow SME Restructuring -- 6. Limited Availability of Risk-based Capital and … conditions have been accommodative, credit growth has remained weak, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …
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Zimbabwe's Export Performance : The Impact of the Parallel Market and Governance Factors
Muñoz, Sònia - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPORT PERFORMANCE IN ZIMBABWE -- III. ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EXPORT BEHAVIOR -- IV. COMPARATIVE MEASURES OF COMPETITIVENESS -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix I. Description of Sources and Transformation -- REFERENCES.
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The Dynamic Effects of Local Labor Market Shocks on Small Firms in The United States
Barrett, Philip - 2024
We use payroll data on over 1 million workers at 80,000 small firms to construct county-month measures of employment, hours, and wages that correct for dynamic changes in sample composition in response to business cycle fluctuations. We use this to estimate the response of small firms'...
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Small Firm Growth and the VAT Threshold Evidence for the UK
Liu, Li - 2024
This paper studies the effect of the VAT threshold on firm growth in the UK, using exogenous variation over time in the threshold, combined with turnover bin fixed effects, for identification. We find robust evidence that annual growth in turnover slows by about 1 percentage point when firm...
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...
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Growth and Capital Flows with Risky Entrepreneurship
Sandri, Damiano - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper shows that the behavior of entrepreneurs facing incomplete financial markets and risky investment can explain why growth accelerations in developing countries tend to be associated with current account improvements. The uninsurable risk of losing invested capital forces entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519499
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Sudden Stops, Output Drops, and Credit Collapses
Dagher, Jihad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper proposes a tractable Sudden Stop model to explain the main patterns in firm level data in a sample of Southeast Asian firms during the Asian crisis. The model, which features trend shocks and financial frictions, is able to generate the main patterns observed in the sample during and...
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Inclusive Growth and the Incidence of Fiscal Policy in Mauritius; Much Progress, But More Could be Done
David, Antonio; Petri, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Using data from three household surveys, we review whether growth in Mauritius was inclusive and discuss the incidence … of public expenditures and taxes. Generally, Mauritius enjoys an even income distribution and low rates of poverty … is the main contributor to inequality in Mauritius. Social protection expenditures reduce poverty and inequality, but …
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