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Bank Financing for SMES : Evidence Across Countries and Bank-Ownership Types
Beck, Thorsten - 2009
SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though different bank ownership types apply different …, organizational structures, and SME financing is not consistent with the conventional view that SME lending is based on “relationship …
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Bank Involvement with SMEs : Beyond Relationship Lending
de la Torre, Augusto - 2013
interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage because they can overcome SME opaqueness through relationship … strategic business and seem well-positioned to expand their links with SMEs. The intensification of bank involvement with SMEs …
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Small, young, and exporters : new evidence on the determinants of firm growth
Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2016
This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...
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Participation and benefits of SMEs in GVCs in Southeast Asia
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Munro, Laura; Gourdon, Julien; … - 2019
Although global value chain (GVCs) participation in Southeast Asia has been growing, little is known about whether the benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the majority of companies and employ the bulk of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110983
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Getting the facts right on born globals
Ferguson, Shon; Henrekson, Magnus; Johannesson, Louise - 2018
Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. These measures are...
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Exporting a bit faster : the long-run performance of born globals in computing
Ferguson, Shon; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. To the best of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894354
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SME policy responses to the 2022/2023 energy crisis : Policy highlights and country experiences
OECD - 2023
aggression against Ukraine from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, "SME policy … responses" are defined as all government policies, whether SME-specific or not, which have lowered or affected in other way the …
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The Net Stable Funding Ratio : Impact and Issues for Consideration
Gobat, Jeanne - 2014
As part of Basel III reforms, the NSFR is a new prudential liquidity rule aimed at limiting excess maturity transformation risk in the banking sector and promoting funding stability. The revised package has been issued for public consultation with a plan of making the rule binding in 2018. This...
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Income diversification, market structure and bank stability : a cross-country analysis
Tran Hung Son; Nguyen, Dat T.; Nguyen Khuong Vinh; Canh … - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 5, pp. 550-568
income diversification and market concentration are related to bank stability. Firstly, we document that bank stability is …-traditional activities. Secondly, market concentration is positively associated with bank stability, in line with the concentration … concentration modifies the link between revenue diversification and bank stability. Specifically, it is shown that diversified banks …
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Investment in a Smaller World : The Implications of Air Travel for Investors and Firms
Da, Zhi - 2020
Coval and Moskowitz (1999) report that proximity influences investment. We extend the measurement of proximity beyond distance and report that air travel reduces local investment bias. This result is confi rmed using the initiation of connecting flights through recently opened air hubs since...
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