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significant differences between the investors which are linked to banks and those financiers which are not. Although, the …
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This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis...
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banks during the recent financial crisis. What is common to most of the empirical studies in this field is that they …. A generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model is applied to the data of four large US banks …
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A strong private equity market is a cornerstone for commercialization and innovation in modern economies. However, substantial differences exist in the relative amounts raised and invested in private equity across European countries. We investigate the macro-determinants of private equity...
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A strong private equity market is a cornerstone for commercialization and innovation in modern economies. However, substantial differences exist in the relative amounts raised and invested in private equity across European countries. We investigate the macro-determinants of private equity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783950
differences in financial factors, which may reflect differences in country risk and the legal and regulatory framework that banks …
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uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of Ukrainian banks collected from NBU and covering the period 2003q1-2005q3 …. The results indicate that banks increase their lending ratios when macroeconomic uncertainty decreases. We demonstrate … that our results are robust with respect to the measurement of macroeconomic uncertainty. The reaction of banks to changes …
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We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we find that bank competition helps firm entry. In...
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We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we find that bank competition helps firm entry. In...
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This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
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