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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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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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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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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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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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introducing nontraditional approach to SME lending would also be important along with trainings and capacity-building programs for …
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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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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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focuses on generating insights around three main topics of SME financing: Scale-up financing, Exit environment & Initial …
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Using a large panel of Hungarian firms, we study the relation between firm size and net job creation. Categorizing firms in size groups with the traditionally used measure of employment size in the base year suggests that small firms create a disproportionally higher number of jobs than large...
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