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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 time bomb for SMEs. Rather, business...
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The relationship of firm size and age to its growth and survival differs according to whether size is measured by sales or employment. Using a large and representative dataset of Greek firms over the period 1999-2014, we find the following patterns. Controlling for age, there is a strong...
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This paper investigates how cross-sectional micro-uncertainty influences the investment of small and large firms and discusses the aggregate implications of the heterogeneity in their investment decisions. Empirically, we find that large firms show less investment decline in times of heightened...
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Post-1990 periods. First, I find that a monetary shock and an NBER recession shock differently affect firms' short …-term financing behavior. During recent periods, after a contractionary monetary shock, large firms increase their short-term debt … more than small firms, whereas after an NBER recession shock, large firms decrease most balance sheet variables (including …
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takes for large firms’ debt to reach its post-shock trough. Our findings challenge the view that propagation of shocks in …
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takes for large firms' debt to reach its post-shock trough. Our findings challenge the view that propagation of shocks in …
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domestic demand. Therefore, a pure supply side shock con be contrasted with a real economy shock that hit exactly when the bank …'s funding position strengthened again. The paper finds that during the funding shock (potential) borrowers are discouraged from … shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …
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