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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2014
than 100 employees) and non-SME firms in developing East Asian countries across sectors. The main findings suggest the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840238
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Why Do SMEs Not Borrow More from Banks? Evidence from the People's Republic of China and Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Jinjarak, Yothin - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2015
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Southeast Asian economies (Indonesia …, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam). Analysis of microdata from enterprise surveys highlights key aspects of SME …, when it comes to external finance, SMEs typically use informal non-bank credit sources more than banks. Third, there is a …
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
than 100 employees) and non-SME firms in developing East Asian countries across sectors. The main findings suggest the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901622
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
than 100 employees) and non-SME firms in developing East Asian countries across sectors. The main findings suggest the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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Technology-related factors as determinants of export potential of Nigerian manufacturing firms
Adeoti, John Olatunji - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 487-503
A critical input that enables capacity for export is investment in technology at the firm-level. Using a survey data, this study investigates technology investments by firms in Southwest Nigeria and how technology investment related factors affect the export potential of firms. Results...
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Kwon, O Hyun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Deng, Quheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …
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Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
Antras, Pol; Chor, Davin; Fally, Thibault; Hillberry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We propose two distinct approaches to the measurement of industry upstreamness (or average distance from final use) and show that they yield an equivalent measure. Furthermore, we provide two additional interpretations of this measure, one of them related to the concept of forward linkages in...
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How Market Imperfections and Trade Barriers Shape Specialisation: South-America vs. OECD
Martins, Joaquim Oliveira; Price, Tristan - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
The paper set out four types of market structure clusters (based on an OECD benchmark) to assess different entry barriers, both endogenous and policy-induced that may affect the ability of enterprises in emerging countries to penetrate international markets. This framework is then applied to...
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Convergence of Knowledge-intensive Sectors and the EU's External Competitiveness
Biege, Sabine; Borowiecki, Martin; Dachs, Bernhard; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012
The share of knowledge-intensive services and products in total output and demand and in the production of advanced, but also less advanced or emerging economies, has steadily increased over time and especially so for the knowledge-intensive services. This ‘quaternization’ of the economies...
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Positionierung der deutschen Industrie im globalen Konsolidierungsprozess : im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Reinhard, Michael; Schedl, Hans; Buchwald, Achim; … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie erstellt und im Oktober 2006 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Studie ist die Untersuchung des Globalisierungs- und Anpassungsprozesses sowie seiner Ergebnisse in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien,...
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