The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a … unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit … indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has …

The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a … unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit … indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has …

unbalanced panel of nearly 700 short-term 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. Several probit models and panel probit models show that liquidity and … profitability factors are important determinants of SMEs defaults, while debt factors are less robust. However, we find that above …

The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to … firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study attempts to empirically examine the impact of relationship quality on …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … qualified labour expels production of new products. R&D activities abroad and exports of new products spur firm growth in the …

enterprises (SMEs) data. The results show that export and innovation are positively linked. Depending on the industry and the type …

exports are considered the first market entry mode, it is critical to understand the effect of innovation on exports. In this … paper, we test the effect of innovation on export performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Peru that have … performance. We test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling from 237 SMEs. The findings show that …