We review the literature on financial constraints and the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We … consider the important role that SMEs play in the economies of Australia and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and … Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …

. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub … an impact evaluation-based approach on firm-level data from 42 African countries, we show that SMEs with access to formal …

Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less …

The increased range and quality of China's exports is a major ongoing development in the international economy with … potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct effects of increased imports from China studied in previous … and employment are significantly negatively affected by China's competition, but only through the indirect 'market …

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …

tend not to face higher interest rates because they provide collateral. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and …