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By employing a sample of 20,956 observations of non-financial SMEs headquartered in the Euro area, between 2009 and 2015, we test whether young businesses are more likely to face credit rejections from lenders than their older peers. Our findings appear to confirm our suspicions that new...
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Credit frequently flows to the business sector through information-intensive bank-firm relationships. This paper …
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The current article examines the issue of financing the micro-enterprises of Latvia by venture capital funds. It considers the number of applications submitted by enterprises to venture capital funds, the number of investments and the amount of the financing granted to enterprises in general and...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477359
We use the Federal Reserve's 2007, 2009 re-interview of 2007 respondents, and 2010 Surveys of Consumer Finances (SCFs) to study how small businesses owned and actively managed by households fared during those turbulent years. Even though the surveys contain extensive data on a broad...
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship …
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a SME survey conducted by Riinvest Institute at the end of 2002 which identified critical business environment barriers … competition. First, based on this SME survey, the econometric model is constructed and empirically tested the Gibrat's Law. Then …, in order to identify and measure the impact of current reported business environment barriers on SME growth, the Gibrat …
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The UK economy has not performed strongly since emerging from recession at the end of 2009, while at the same time public sector cuts have yet to really take their toll. With the Government encouraging new and small businesses to boost activity and jobs, we examine whether the UK is still a good...
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weaker credit markets ex ante and consistent with local bank branches using cheap targeted credit lines to expand lending …
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