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Bank credit supply and firm innovation
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018
We analyze the causal effect of the credit supply shock to banks induced by interbank market disruptions in the recent financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we find that having relations with a more severely...
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Determinants of financing obstacles of SMEs in Western Balkans
Gashi Ahmeti, Hana; Fetai, Besnik - In: Management dynamics in the knowledge economy 9 (2021) 3/33, pp. 331-344
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Bank market power and discouraged SMEs : international evidence
Duc Nguyen Nguyen; Mishra, Anil V.; Daly, Kevin James - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 6, pp. 1045-1061
-size enterprises (SMEs) in 113 countries around the world. Our results from a probit selection model indicate that higher bank market …
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Determinants of firms' efficiency: do innovations and finance constraints matter? : the case of European SMEs
Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
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Accessing finance for innovative EU SMEs key drivers and challenges
Vasilescu, Laura - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 12 (2014) 2, pp. 35-47
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in economic development, they offer the most economical use of … utilization of new products, processes and services. SMEs are crucial for helping economies to restructure quickly in response to … changing economic, social and market conditions, under the impact of international financial crisis. However, SMEs can fulfill …
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Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
Verdolini, Elena; Bak, Céline; Ruet, Joël; … - 2018
The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …
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Financial constraints and public funding for eco-innovation : empirical evidence on European SMEs
Cecere, Grazia; Corrocher, Nicoletta; Mancusi, Maria Luisa - 2016
European SMEs belonging to different sectors that are involved in products, processes and organizational eco-innovations. Our …
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Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
Verdolini, Elena; Bak, Céline; Ruet, Joël; … - 2018
The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …
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Young SMEs : driving innovation in Europe?
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Ferrando, Annalisa; Lekpek, Senad; … - 2018
innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or … new to the market. To further explore why young SMEs are not more active in innovation, we explore their access to finance … partly addressing the external financing access problem for leading innovators, but not for young SMEs. …
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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2013
This study tests for financial constraints on Ramp;D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for Ramp;D...
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