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Culture and capital structure in small and medium sized firms
Kearney, Colm; Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán; Lucey, Brian M. - 2012
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Financing SMEs in Europe
Balling, Morten (ed.); Bernet, Beat (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.) - Conference on "Financing SMEs in Europe" <2008, Paris>; … - 2009
Small and medium-sized enterprises are a centrepiece of Europe's economy. Due to their limited size and their generally …, a conference on "Financing SMEs in Europe" was jointly organised by SUERF and the Banque de France on 11 and 12 …
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The debt structure of SMEs : an optimization model
Moro, Andrea; Lucas, Mike R.; Grimm, Uwe G. - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2012) 1, pp. 87-108
trust that bank managers and suppliers have in the SME, the more short-term finance an SME can obtain and should use. …
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Trade-off-theory vs. pecking order theory and the determinants of corporate leverage : evidence from a panel data analysis upon French SMEs (2002 - 2010)
Adair, Philippe; Adaskou, Mohamed - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-11
We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...
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SMEs capital structure determinants during severe economic crisis : the case of Greece
Balios, D.; Daskalakis, N.; Eriotis, Nikolaos; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-11
The objective of this paper was to explore whether and how the main capital structure determinants of SMEs affected capital structure determination in different ways during the years of economic crisis. We used panel data of 8,052 SMEs operating in Greece during 2009-2012. We found that the...
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The role of corporate financial structure in the export propensity of manufacturing firms
Miravitlles, Paloma; Mora, Toni; Achcaoucaou, Fariza - 2016
The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of corporate financial structure on a firm's export propensity, especially that of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper contributes to the literature concerned with the relationship between exports and financial constraints from the...
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To what extent do regional effects influence firms' capital structure? : the case of Southern Italian SMEs'
Butzbach, Olivier; Sarno, Domenico - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 1/3, pp. 1-24
There is tremendous interest, in the economic literature, for the determinants of firms’ capital structure decisions. A rich body of empirical works now exists that purports to identify firm- and country-level factors affecting firms’ financing patterns. In addition, more recently, a new...
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Comparative study of the relevance of equity financing in European SMEs
Wieczorek-Kosmala, Monika; Błach, Joanna; Trzęsiok, Joanna - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 6, pp. 1543-1560
This paper contributes to the academic debate on the pecking order theory and SMEs equity financing, in this equity financing gap. In order to address this problem, this study relies on the empirical design that is driven by the premises of the pecking order theory and distinguishes between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505322
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Impact of selected characteristics of SMEs on the capital structure
Belás, Jaroslav; Gavurova, Beata; Tóth, Peter - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 4, pp. 592-608
entities. Given the specificities of companies in the SME segment, achieving an optimal capital structure is a challenging task … reason, we decided to realize our research. The main aim of the paper is to identify determinants of the SME's capital … consist of all SME in the Czech Republic. We applied ordinal logistic regression and estimated five models. These models were …
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Are regional institutional factors determinants of the capital structure of SMEs?
Palacín-Sánchez, María-José; Di Pietro, Filippo - 2013
This paper analyses the role that institutional factors play in explaining differences in the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across regions belonging to a single country. Specifically, it studies the effect of the development of the financial sector and of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565931