Bertoni, Fabio; Colombo, Massimo G.; Quas, Anita - 2018
EU-guaranteed loans to SMEs disbursed in France during the years 2002 to 2016. The study estimates the average treatment …-in-difference estimation, coarsened exact matching and propensity score analysis. On average, French SMEs benefitting from EU-guaranteed loans … significance of the effect is typically stronger for smaller and younger firms. Beneficiary SMEs also experienced 5% lower default …