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The impact of internal rating systems on the finan ing policy of firms

Renato, Maino; Michele, Modina - In: Banca Impresa Società (2012) 1, pp. 89-106

The diffusion of internal rating systems changes the scenario of the financial strategy adopted by firms. The objective of the work consists of understanding how firms can respond to increasingly complex strategies that require an operative and managerial maturity, by building an optimum...

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The impact of exporting on SME capital structure and debt maturity choices

Maes, Elisabeth; Dewaelheyns, Nico; Fuss, Catherine; … - 2016

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Equity gap? - which equity gap? : on the financing structure of Germany's Mittelstand

Bannier, Christina E. (contributor); … - 2008

. We do not detect any structural problems in average SME's capital structure. Rather, German Mittelstand firms appear to … ; financing gap ; financing structure ; SME …

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Financing technology-based small firms in Europe : a review of the empirical evidence

Revest, Valérie; Sapio, Sandro - 2009

This paper reviews the evidence on financing technology-based small firms (TBSFs) in Europe. The main findings in the …

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European Trade Credit Use and SME Survival

McGuinness, Gerard - 2019

This paper examines the role of trade credit in a comprehensive panel of 290,301 SMEs across 15 European countries over the period 2003-2012. The results show that trade credit served as an important source of finance for credit constrained firms, and that the financial position of firms...

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Monitoring in Small Business Lending : How to Observe the Unobservable

Meles, Antonio - 2018

This paper investigates the determining factors of bank monitoring in small business lending. Unlike previous studies that have relied on proxies of a bank's monitoring effort, we use a large and unique data set that includes the number of monitoring contacts per year between a European bank and...

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Housing Collateral and Small Firm Activity in Europe

Banerjee, Ryan - 2016

relationship is particularly strong in southern Europe (Italy and Spain), where financial frictions are larger and the use of …

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National Culture and Small Firms’ Use of Trade Credit : Evidence from Europe

Moro, Andrea; Belghitar, Yacine; Mateus, Cesario - 2021

We examine the use of trade credit in Western Europe by relying on a sample of 182,296 small firms for the period 2003 … that countries’ cultural norms play a key role in explaining trade credit differences in Europe. We find that in countries …

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Financing patterns of European SMEs revisited : an updated empirical taxonomy and determinants of SME financing clusters

Masiak, Christian; Moritz, Alexandra; Lang, Frank - 2017

empirical taxonomy of SME financing patterns in Europe, applying cluster analyses. In order to investigate the cluster stability … of SMEs. Our results confirm the results of Moritz et al. (2016) and show that European SME financing is not homogenous …, but that different financing patterns exist. Our cluster analysis identifies seven distinct SME financing types based on …

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Is There a Size Gap in Corporate Leverage? A European Comparison

Coeurderoy, Régis - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 5-6, pp. 672-688

The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate corporate debt ratios by size classes in Continental Europe. Evidence is …

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