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The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably through their involvement into supply-chains. With supply-chains shifting and expanding into new regions of the world, the challenge for SMEs to accessing financing remains an...
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We study the effect of financial distress in foreign parent banks on local SME financing in 14 central and eastern European countries during the early stages of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We use survey data on applicant and non-applicant firms that enable us to disentangle effects driven by...
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The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably through their involvement into supply-chains. With supply-chains shifting and expanding into new regions of the world, the challenge for SMEs to accessing financing remains an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982262
Purpose: The value of relationship building is well documented in the literature, where a number of benefits seem to accrue for both interacting parties. This is also the case for Bank-SME relationships. However, the recent financial crisis is expected to have a significant impact on the...
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Innovation plays a critical role in shaping the industrial and firm competitiveness of any nation. Innovation is often … in understanding innovation in developing economies. This paper aims to study and present the current state of innovation … in the innovation process in the context of the existing government policy. India, being a developing nation, has its own …
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Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi …
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Innovation plays a critical role in shaping the industrial and firm competitiveness of any nation. Innovation is often … in understanding innovation in developing economies. This paper aims to study and present the current state of innovation … in the innovation process in the context of the existing government policy. India, being a developing nation, has its own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983342
In this paper we present an analytical review of the capital adequacy regime and the present state of capital to risk-weighted asset ratio (CRAR) of the banking sector in India. In the current regime of Basel I, Indian banking system is performing reasonably well, with an average CRAR of about...
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U.S. commercial banks are increasingly using credit scoring models to underwrite small business credits. This paper discusses this technology, evaluates the research findings on the effects of this technology on small business credit availability, and links these findings to a number of research...
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Assessing the impacts of bank mergers on small firms requires separating borrowers with single versus multiple banking relationships and distinguishing the three alternatives of "staying," "dropping," and "switching" of relationship. Single-relationship borrowers who "switch" to another bank...
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