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Tamaño, estructura y coste de financiación de las empresas manufactureras españolas

Segura, Julio; Toledo, Liliana - In: Investigaciones Economicas 27 (2003) 1, pp. 39-69

In this article we analyse the impact of firms’ size on their financial and cost structure. We use a panel of 2000 Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1991-1998. We find that the marginal cost of external finance of firms varies inversely with their size. Also the smaller the firm the...

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Foreign Banks in Eastern Europe: Mode of Entry and Effects on Bank Interest Rates

Claeys, Sophie; Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Credit markets in many Eastern European countries are now dominated by foreign-owned banks. We analyze the development for foreign ownership and its impact on lending rate in ten Eastern European countries between 1995 and 2003. Currently, the majority of loans from foreign banks is granted by...

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Transformation of a Woodworking and Furniture Industrial District in Kampala, Uganda: Dichotomous Development of SME Cluster and Large Firm Sector

Yoshida, Eiichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

furniture SME district in Uganda has created a learning environment for artisans to start up their own workshops. In the … dispersedly from SME district and have a negative image to SME. This dichotomy has been created partly through spatial division of …

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Accompagnement managerial et développement international de la PME. (Managerial accompaniment and internationalisation of SMES)

DOKOU, Gérard A. Kokou - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2007

. Entrepreneurial accompaniment aims at coping with the strategic inadequacies of SMEs. With the SME, the entrepreneur’s profile is …

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Quelles performances financières pour les jeunes entreprises pérennes ?

Blazy, Régis; Chopard, Bertrand - Luxembourg School of Finance, Faculté de droit, … - 2006

Cet article soulève deux questions : les jeunes entreprises pérennes (dont l’activité dure au moins cinq ans, soit quatre publications de comptes) présentent-elles des caractéristiques distinctes selon l’origine de la création et ces caractéristiques induisent-elles des performances...

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Financing opportunities for SME in Romania

Corduneanu, Carmen; Iovu, Laura Raisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The challenges caused by regionalization and globalization of markets demand the compliance of SME to the competitive … environment, by consolidating their market position and benefit from the economical opportunities. Romanian SME could become an … through the capital market. SME continue to limit their financing sources by using their own benefits, bank credits, leasing …

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Quality Management System an ace in the sleeve of the SME to gain competitiveness on the international markets

Hmelnitchi, Carmen; Neamtu, Ion - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

international market. So that, obtaining quality products and services have to be the principal strategic objective and the SME have … requirements is a true „ace in the sleeve of the SME” for gaining competitiveness. …

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Innovation in New Zealand: Issues of Firm Size, Local Market Size and Economic Geography

McCann, Philip; Oxley, Les; Shangqin, Hong - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

In this paper we report empirical evidence from a mixed methods approach to investigating the drivers of innovation in New Zealand. The evidence comes from a primary questionnaire survey we conducted across seventy-five local firms plus fifteen face-to-face case study interviews. Our survey...

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Innovation and exports in Vietnam's SME sector

Nguyen, Anh Ngoc; Pham, Ngoc Quang; Nguyen, Chuc Dinh; … - In: The European Journal of Development Research 20 (2008) 2, pp. 262-280

Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and firms. Common knowledge holds that innovation causes an increase in exports. However, contradicting empirical evidence is reported in the literature on the links between...

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Default Rates in the Loan Market for SMEs: Evidence from Slovakia

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Hainz, Christa; Malesich, Anton - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Banks entering an emerging market face a lot of uncertainty about the risks involved in lending. We use a unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 shortterm loans made to SMEs in Slovakia between January 2000 and June 2005. Of the loans granted, on average 6.0 per cent of the firms defaulted....

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