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Relationship lending: empirical evidence for Germany

Schmieder, Christian; Memmel, Christoph; Stein, Ingrid - 2007

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis of a comprehensive data set comprising information on firm-bank relationships for more than 16,000 observations, this study analyses the determinants of relationship lending in...

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Empirische Analyse des Offenlegungszeitpunkts von Jahresabschlüssen nach dem EHUG

Henselmann, Klaus; Kaya, Devrimi - 2008

disclosing financial statements for small and medium enterprises (SME) in Germany in 2007 and 2008. Comparisons of different …

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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Access to finance and venture capital for industrial SMEs

Heimer, Thomas; Hölscher, Luise; Werner, Matthias Ralf - 2008

SMEs play a crucial role for European economies. The numbers show the high importance of SMEs for national economies. Accordingly, it is no surprise that the regulatory framework SMEs are imbedded in is the subject of an important political discussion. In the discussion it is frequently...

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Equity gap? - Which equity gap? On the financing structure of Germany's Mittelstand

Bannier, Christina E.; Grote, Michael H. - 2008

. We do not detect any structural problems in average SME's capital structure. Rather, German Mittelstand firms appear to …

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The price impact of lending relationships

Stein, Ingrid - 2011

This study analyzes the impact of bank relationships on a firm's cost of debt. We focus on relationships with the main bank. We find that a firm's cost of debt decreases with relationship strength, proxied by the share of bank debt provided by the main lender, but rises with relationship length....

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Capital structure in new technology-based firms : evidence from the Irish software sector

Hogan, Teresa; Hutson, Elaine - 2005

Using a sample of 117 Irish software companies, we examine the capital structure of new technology-based firms. Consistent with the findings on financing for other small businesses, internal funds are the most important source of funding in new technology-based firms. However, in apparent...

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Which entrepreneurs expect to expand their businesses? Evidence from survey data in Lithuania

Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2004

This paper presents an empirical study based on a survey of 399 small and medium size companies in Lithuania. Applying bivariate and ordered probit estimators, we investigate why some business owners intend to expand their firms, while others do not. Our main findings provide evidence that the...

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Uždarosios akcinės bendrovės „KAIMAS“ veiklos plėtros analizė orientuojantis į Europos žemės ūkio orientavimo ir garantijų fondo teikiamą paramą smulkiam ir vidutiniam verslui

Lukošius, Saulius - 2006

scientific approaches towards SME‘s support were identified in the final paper. EAGGF requirements for SME‘s and their projects …

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Orgstruktūrinis modelis Lietuvos smulkaus ir vidutinio verslo plėtrai

Ražauskas, Darius - 2010

Number of appendixes: 3 The aim of final work is to present a model of orgstructure for Lithuanian SME development. At the …. Moreover, it is set forth the degree of evaluation of theoretical models for testing of organizational Lithuanian SME … analysis of the literary, it is definded the model of organization structure of Lithuanian SME development conditions and it is …

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