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Firming up the capital base of the Austrian business sector : consolidating Austria's business sector strengths and its social role in the face of new challenges
Dlugosch, Dennis; Gönenç, Rauf; Kim, Eun Jung; … - 2020
performance levels. The capital structure of Austrian SMEs are biased towards debt-financing and stronger equity, growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203255
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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in Kazakhstan
Kapparov, Kassymkhan - 2019
One of the major issues for SME development has been access to finance. This paper examines the current state of SME development and financing in Kazakhstan. It also examines the current state of the development of value chains and discusses barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113904
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On the dynamics of small and medium-sized enterprises : evidence from Japan
Yamada, Kazuo; El Kalak, Izidin; Takahashi, Hidenori - 2018
The main objective of this paper is to understand how the changes in the macroeconomic conditions (the global financial crisis) relate to the investment and financial decision-making for each of the different size categories of SMEs. To do so, we use a large dataset of 764,963 observations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804488
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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2020
-post performance, we find that issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390449
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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2020
their leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419623
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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2021
issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614108
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External financing and firm growth : evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Iran
Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Fereidouni, Hassan … - 2023
This study examines the relationship between access to finance and growth in sales for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Iran. Using data from 486 firms in five provinces, our findings indicate that external financing positively impacts sales growth for MSMEs. The results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245441
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Did high leverage render small businesses vulnerable to the COVID-19 shock?
Bräuning, Falk; Fillat Comenge, José Luis; Wang, J. … - 2022 - This version: July 2022
leverage faced tighter constraints in accessing bank credit after the COVID-19 outbreak in spring 2020. Specifically, SMEs with … higher pre-COVID leverage obtained a smaller volume of new loans and had to pay a higher spread on them during the pandemic … were not able to substitute to other sources of debt financing and thus experienced more of a reduction in total debt as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414903
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An analysis of the effects of the severance payment reform on credit to Italian SMEs
Calcagno, Riccardo; Kräussl, Roman; Monticone, Chiara - 2008
We study the effects of the reform of the system of severance payments (TFR) of Italian employees on the cost and the access to credit for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). The most direct consequence of the reform is to reduce in the long run the amount of liquid assets available to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377271
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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger H. - 2012
role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship. While lower …-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher income households face strong tax incentives to be corporate. The data … suggest a strong response to these tax incentives. Many conventional non-tax determinants are confirmed in the data as well …
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