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Financing obstacles and growth: an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations
Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
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Gazelles as Job Creators: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - 2008
It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms - so-called Gazelles - that are...
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Who's afraid of big bad banks? Bank competition, SME, and industry growth
Inklaar, Robert; Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix - 2012
use a dataset with approximately 700,000 firm-year observations of German small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to … the German banking market. Market power generally spurs aggregate SME growth. Banks need to realize sufficient margins to … reduces SME growth in industries that depend heavily on external finance. …
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Technological learning, policy regimes and growth in a "globalized" economy: General patterns and the Latin American experience
Castaldi, Carolina; Cimoli, Mario; Correa, Nelson; … - 2004
The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called 'globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the distribution of incomes and growth. First, we re-assess the evidence on the general patterns of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328522
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The patterns of output growth of firms and countries: New evidence on scale invariances and specificities
Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni - 2007
This work brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size distributions of firms and the properties of their growth rates. First, our empirical analysis provides a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328462
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Different Groups of SMEs in Germany and Their Recovery
Zimmermann, Volker; Köhler-Geib, Fritzi - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 333-341
Using Germany as an example, this article examines how different groups of small andmedium-sized enterprises were … of small andmedium-sized enterprises in Germany was hardly diminished by the pandemic. …
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The impact of German job protection, legislation on job, creation in small establishments: An application of the regression discontinuity design
Burgert, Derik - 2005
One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...
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Small and Medium Enterprises' (SMEs) Access to Finance: Philippines
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2012
introducing nontraditional approach to SME lending would also be important along with trainings and capacity-building programs for …
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Micro, small and medium enterprise upgrading in India: learning from success cases
Reeg, Caroline - 2013
In low and middle-income countries micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) constitute a large part of the industrial fabric. By offering possibilities to gain income, training and work experience MSMEs are said to provide livelihoods to millions of people worldwide. However, across developed...
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Is the R&D Behaviour of Fast Growing SMEs Different? Evidence from CIS III Data for 16 Countries
Hölzl, Werner - 2008
This paper studies the R&D behaviour of fast growing SMEs using CIS III data for 16 countries. We group the countries into three groups that roughly have the same position in technological development. The first finding is that R&D is more important to high growth SMEs in countries that are...
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