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We study the composition of bank loan portfolios during the transition of the real sec-tor to a knowledge economy where firms increasingly use intangible capital. Exploiting heterogeneity in bank exposure to the compositional shift from tangible to intangible capital, we show that exposed banks...
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We analyze differences in the pricing of syndicated loans between U.S. and European loans. For credit lines, U …. For term loans, U.S. firms pay significantly higher spreads. While European firms across the rating spectrum issue terms … loans, only low quality U.S. firms rely on term loans. U.S. issuers perform worse after loan origination compared to …
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Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) has been a concern for all stakeholders including entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and government organizations. The key objective of the study was to identify various challenges faced by MSMEs in sourcing of finance during...
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In Thailand, the government has long recognized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the economy and has given a large amount of financial support to this sector. Still, SMEs are not able to catch up with larger enterprises and the constraints to SME financing remain...
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minimizing the bank's nonperforming loans to SMEs, and at the same time fulfill the government policies for supporting SMEs. Our …
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. Long-term interest rates have been exceptionally high and long-term loans and deposits exceptionally low since the Lehman … collapse. Instead, short-term interest rates and short-term loans and deposits did not show abnormal dynamics in the course of …
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households who have chosen variablerate housing loans has increased in recent years. …
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Relatively little is known about the effects of blue-collar crime (theft, robbery, vandalism or arson) on financial decisions. Previous literature has focused its attention either on 'regional' crime rates or the 'perception' of crime as business obstacles. Instead, we examine financing terms of...
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