The privatisation of State Owned Enterprises (SEO) and cooperatives in Slovakia in the post-communist period created an SME sector diverse in origin and ownership. In the period 1993 to 2011 the size of the SME sector doubled. In this study we develop hypotheses from extant theories and analysis...

This study considers domestic and international small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the United Kingdom separately while modelling their default risk. To establish the empirical validation, separate one-year default prediction models are developed using dynamic logistic regression...

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) play a fundamental role in the economic performance of major economies especially in light of the new Basel Capital Accord. Several lending communities proposed to treat SMEs as retail clients to optimize capital requirements and profitability. In this...