-called industrial districts) or specialising in the production of quality goods (the so called made in Italy). However, the growing … competitiveness. By developing a conceptual model we identify the sources of competitiveness of Italian SMEs. The model is tested … using a unique database which collects data, for the year 2004, over a sample of 2,600 SMEs. …

The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a … unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit … indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has …

The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a … unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit … indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has …

exports are considered the first market entry mode, it is critical to understand the effect of innovation on exports. In this … paper, we test the effect of innovation on export performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Peru that have … performance. We test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling from 237 SMEs. The findings show that …

seems to be an undersupply of occupational pension provision particularly in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …

show that distance matters for cross-border lending, especially for the SMEs. In contrast to the policy of harmonization …