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Business to Business Credit to Small Firms

Mach, Traci - 2014

trajectory while small loans outstanding continued to decline. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firms used trade credit to smooth … over cash flow problems. The current paper looks at recent trends in trade credit use by small businesses based on a recent … poll done by the Credit Research Foundation. The results highlight the importance of business to business credit for small …

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Are banks different? : evidence from international data

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Pecking order models of international finance suggest that countries should become less reliant on international bank lending as they develop. Reduced information costs are one of the factors behind this trend towards disintermediation. This paper presents a simple model on the choice between...

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The debt structure of SMEs : an optimization model

Moro, Andrea; Lucas, Mike R.; Grimm, Uwe G. - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2012) 1, pp. 87-108

The existing finance literature is inadequate with respect to its coverage of the debt structure of small and medi-um sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, the role of trust in accessing finance for such enterprises is under-investigated. This paper presents a mathematical model for optimizing...

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