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lenders. The estimation results imply an increase of 3-4 jobs for each million dollars of loans, suggesting that credit … for the SBA 504 versus 7(a) programs, and with respect to the business cycle, local credit conditions, and within …
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Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …
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the firm's size in terms of employment depends on the access to credit. Under the financial market imperfections, access … to credit can be a binding constraint on firm entry and employment even when the banks have sufficient liquidity. Using …
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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 exogenous determinant of firms' access to credit. Findings, relative to the … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less …
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's constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained …
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Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....
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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...
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vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
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The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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