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Is Small Beautiful? : Financial Structure, Size and Access to Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2011

Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between the relative importance of different financial institutions and their average size and firms' access to financial services. Specifically, the authors explore the relationship between the share in total financial assets...

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SME Finance in Africa

Beck, Thorsten - 2014

This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across...

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Bank Financing For SMEs Around The World : Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, And Lending Practices

Beck, Thorsten - 2008

enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive … macroeconomic instability in developing countries and competition in developed countries as the main obstacles. To serve SMEs banks … there are some differences in SMEs financing across government, private, and foreign-owned banks - with the latter being …

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