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Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...
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In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
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We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...
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lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to … factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … financing, especially long-term lending. -- small and medium enterprises, bank finance, financial constraints, banking market …
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