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Special section: SMEs - access to finance

Beck, Thorsten (contributor); … - In: Journal of banking & finance 30 (2006) 11, pp. 2931-3130

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Small and medium-size enterprises: access to finance as a growth constraint

Beck, Thorsten; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - In: Journal of banking & finance 30 (2006) 11, pp. 2931-2943

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385903

Financing patterns around the world : are small firms different?

Beck, Thorsten; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - In: Journal of financial economics 89 (2008) 3, pp. 467-487

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Bank financing for SMEs around the world drivers, obstacles, business models, and lending practices

Beck, Thorsten (contributor); … - 2008

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Financing constraints of SMEs in developing countries : evidence, determinants and solutions

Beck, Thorsten - In: Financing innovation-oriented business to promote …, (pp. 13-36). 2007

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The SME Finance Gap in The European Union

Beck, Thorsten; Kessler, Natalie - 2023

This paper presents SME financing gaps across European countries over the period 2013 to 2020, using two different methodologies, one reliant on firm balance sheets and one on firm-level surveys. We show significant variation in financing gaps across countries and sectors. Variation over time,...

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Small and Medium Enterprises, Growth, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2016

force. Using a sample of 76 countries, they find a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita … characteristic of successful economies, the data fail to support the hypothesis that SMEs exert a causal impact on growth …. Furthermore, the authors find no evidence that SMEs reduce poverty. Finally, they find qualified evidence that the overall …

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Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe : A New Database

Ayyagari, Meghana - 2016

This paper describes a new cross-country database on the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This … contribution of the SME sector using a uniform definition of SMEs across different countries, allowing for consistent cross …

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SME Finance in Africa

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

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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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

We conduct face-to-face interviews with bank CEOs to classify 397 banks across 21 countries as either relationship or transaction lenders. We then use the geographic coordinates of these banks' branches and of 14,100 businesses to analyze how the lending techniques of banks in the vicinity of...

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