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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021
This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …
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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...
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Taxing immovable property : revenue potential and implementation challenges
Nørregaard, John - 2013
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Taxing Immovable Property Revenue Potential and Implementation Challenges
Norregaard, John - 2013
The tax on immovable property has been characterized as probably the most unpopular among tax instruments, in part because it is salient and hard to avoid. But economists continue to emphasize the virtues of the property tax owing to its relatively low efficieny costs, benign impact on growth,...
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SMEs’ access to finance in the euro area : what helps or hampers?
Öztürk, Bahar; Mrkaic, Mico - 2014
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Small and medium size enterprises, credit supply shocks, and economic recovery in Europe
Klein, Nir - 2014
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What role can financial policies play in revitalizing SMEs in Japan?
Lam, W. Raphael; Shin, Jongsoon - 2012
). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets show that many SMEs have faced structural challenges of high … support measures should be phased out and SME restructuring be accelerated. Efforts are also needed to deepen capital markets …
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Small and vulnerable : small firm productivity in the great productivity slowdown
Chen, Sophia; Lee, Do - 2020
We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the Global Financial Crisis. The TFP growth of smaller firms was more adversely affected and diverged from their larger counterparts after the crisis. The impact was progressively...
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Fintech credit risk assessment for SMEs : evidence from China
Huang, Yiping; Zhang, Longmei; Li, Zhenhua; Qiu, Han; … - 2020
Promoting credit services to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) has been a perennial challenge for policy makers globally due to high information costs. Recent fintech developments may be able to mitigate this problem. By leveraging big data or digital footprints on existing platforms,...
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COVID-19 and SME failures
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; … - 2020
, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
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