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Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Maslov, Egor; Sørensen, Bent E. - 2019

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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Local capital scarcity and small firm growth : evidence from real estate booms in China

Hau, Harald; Ouyang, Difei - 2019

, reduce their bank lending, lower their investment rate and labor productivity, and reduce their output and TFP growth by …

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Racial disparities in access to small business credit : evidence from the paycheck protection program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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Who gains from better access to credit? : credit reform and reallocation of resources

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Flach, Lisandra - 2017

alleviating credit constraints for high productivity firms. After the reform, better access to credit allowed these firms to … across firms, thus raising aggregate productivity. …

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Do firms mitigate or magnify capital misallocation? : evidence from planet-level data

Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017

Almost two thirds of the cross-plant dispersion in marginal revenue products of capital occurs across plants within the same firm rather than between firms. Even though firms allocate invest- ment very differently across their plants, they do not equalize marginal revenue products across their...

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Gendered access to finance : the role of team formation, idea quality, and implementation constraints in business evaluations

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male...

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …

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Supply chain finance and SMEs : evidence from international factoring data

Auboin, Marc; Smythe, Harry; Teh, Robert - 2016

The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably through their involvement into supply-chains. With supply-chains shifting and expanding into new regions of the world, the challenge for SMEs to accessing financing remains an...

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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017

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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Gendered access to finance : the roles of team formation, idea quality, and implementation constraints in business evaluations

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2024

We analyze gender bias in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet women are particularly constrained. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs,...

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