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SME finance in Africa
Beck, Thorsten; Cull, Robert J. - In: Journal of African economies 23 (2014) 5, pp. 583-613
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Entrepreneurial saving practices and reinvestment : theory and evidence from Tanzanian MSEs
Beck, Thorsten; Pamuk, Haki; Uras, Burak - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349907
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Is small beautiful ? financial structure, size and access to finance
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Singer, Dorothe - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between the relative importance of different financial institutions and their average size and firms'access to financial services. Specifically, the authors explore the relationship between the share in total financial assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319874
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Sex and Credit : Is There a Gender Bias in Microfinance?
Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Madestam, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
This paper examines the effects of group identity in the credit market. Exploiting the quasirandom assignment of first-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find that borrowers pay on average 29 basis points...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091317
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SME finance in Africa
Beck, Thorsten; Cull, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903296
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Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten; Levine, Ross - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
The authors explore the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector …, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a … relationship, however, is not robust to controlling for simultaneity bias. So, while a large SME sector is characteristic of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128897
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Small and medium enterprises across the globe : a new database
Ayyagari, Meghana; Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asl - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
database is unique in that it presents consistent and comparable information on the contribution of the SME sector to total … contribution of the SME sector using a uniform definition of SMEs across different countries, allowing for consistent cross …-country comparisons. Third, while we follow the traditional definition of the SME sector as being part of the formal sector, the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134294
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The determinants of financing obstacles
Beck, Thorsten; Laeven, Luc; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
The authors use survey data on a sample of over 10,000 firms from 80 countries to assess (1) how successful a priori classifications are in distinguishing between financially constrained and unconstrained firms, and (2) more generally, the determinants of financing obstacles of firms. They find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141435
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Financial and legal institutions and firm size
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
The authors investigate how a country's financial institutions and the quality of its legal system explain the size attained by its largest industrial firms in a sample of 44 countries. Firm size is positively related to the size of the banking system and the efficiency of the legal system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141701
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Financial and legal constraints to firm growth - Does size matter?
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
Using a unique firm-level survey data base, covering fifty four countries, the authors investigate whether different financial, legal, and corruptionissues that firms report as constraints, actually affect their growth rates. The results show that the extent to which these factors constrain a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115994