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investigate whether Omani SME owner-managers' intention to adopt Islamic finance is influenced by their knowledge of Islamic … a questionnaire survey via face-to-face interviews to 385 SME owner-managers operating in Muscat, Oman's capital city … data. Findings - The findings indicate that while SME owner-managers' Islamic financial knowledge and personal …
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We analyse a sample of 6 million firm-year observations of large corporations and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) spanning 6 European countries from 2005 to 2015, to determine the impact of leverage and different sources of funding on default risk. We find that financial leverage has a...
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We show that small firms using syndicated loans for their mid- and long-term financial needs have significantly higher leverage than firms that do not borrow in this market. This difference cannot be attributed to firm characteristics like the availability of growth opportunities, asset...
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The impact of economic distress on the financialstructure decisions of an industry has been under-investigated in the businessliterature.This research investigates the impact of the Portugueserecession of the early and mid 1990s on the financial structure decisions ofbusinesses within the...
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The pricing of financing credit for SMEs under government credit enhancement is an important pattern to solve the financing difficulties of SMEs. Using the data of SMEs credit guarantee fund from Wenzhou, this paper studies the cost of credit under government credit enhancement from three...
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Using a lender cut-off rule that generates plausibly exogenous variation in credit supply, I analyze real effects of loan rejections in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises. I find that loan rejections reduce asset growth, investments, and employment, and these effects are concentrated...
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Do changes in the marginal tax rate of corporations affect their investment? Using a unique dataset on balance sheet and income of firms from 1956-2008 and a new measure of exogenous changes in corporations marginal tax rate, this paper shows that the investment response of large firms to a...
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