Increasingly, policymakers are looking to the small business sector as a potential engine of economic growth. Policies to promote small businesses include tax relief, direct subsidies, and indirect subsidies through government lending programs. Encouraging lending to small business is the...

An analysis of the impact of binding budget constraints on the expected revenue generated by sealed-bid and oral auctions, showing that revenue is higher in the former case.

This paper investigates the performance of community banks as small business (relationship) lenders. Theory suggests that competition reduces the benefits of bank–borrower relationships, making small business loans more risky and less profitable. In support of this theory, the evidence...

This article examines how consolidation, along with the use of credit-scoring models for lending, may be reflected in recent patterns of small business lending by banks. The authors find that the market for small business lending has been substantially influenced both by the wave of bank...

It defines, in front of the aggressiveness of the world-wide competition and the lost of competitiveness in Mexico, the development of a consulting model that involve the paradigms of the consultancy, management of the organizacional change, Objetc Oriented Analysis and Design and a toolbox of...

This paper examines the relationship between debt contract and the process of resolving financial distress, through either debt restructuring or bankruptcy procedure. It effectively justifies the popularity of the standard debt contract by demonstrating that the standard debt contract is the...

Using small business data, we investigate the relationship between bank loan availability and trade credit in Japan during the recent global financial crisis. Previous studies argue that the relationship between trade payables and bank loan availability is negative because trade credit is an...

Налогообложение играет важнейшую роль в стимулировании деятельности предприятий малого бизнеса. Раскрывается проблема применения режима единого налога на...