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Determinants of firms' efficiency: do innovations and finance constraints matter? : the case of European SMEs
Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes
Bonanno, Graziella - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402
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Team rivalry and lending on crowdfunding platforms : an empirical analysis
Ge, Ling; Luo, Xuechen - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 17, pp. 1-8
team, suggesting that rival teams tend to avoid cooperation. Conclusions: We discuss the implications of our findings for …. Some platforms introduce team competition to motivate member participation and may thus induce team rivalry. Methods: We … investigate how team rivalry affects lending decisions using data from Kiva.org. We argue that a rivalry relationship may engage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590234
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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2013
This study tests for financial constraints on Ramp;D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for Ramp;D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711028
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The Leasing Decisions of Small, Privately Held Firms
Cotei, Carmen - 2017
We analyze the impact of firm's asset uniqueness and its growth opportunities on the leasing decisions of U.S. startups. To test our hypotheses, we use a unique dataset provided by the Kauffman Foundation. Our results show that startups in the high-technology sector have a lower propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969232
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Financial system, and SME financing in Kazakhstan
Dosmagambet, Yergali; Oskenbayev, Yessengali; … - 2018
economic development, particularly concentrating on the diversification and expansion of the SME sector. Second-tier banks … the CGS in SME financing in Kazakhstan. In addition, it provides an empirical analysis using the structural VAR method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949765
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The Impacts of Fintech on Small Business Borrowing
Palladino, Lenore - 2020
Fintech lending to small businesses is growing rapidly in the United States, but the industry remains largely unregulated. In this study, I examine borrower outcomes when a borrower states that they are using credit from a fintech for small business purposes; I subsequently examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844341
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Business to Business Credit to Small Firms
Mach, Traci - 2014
Following the financial crisis, total outstanding loans to businesses by commercial banks dropped off substantially. Large loans outstanding began to rebound by the third quarter of 2010 and essentially returned to their previous growth trajectory while small loans outstanding continued to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049258
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How did Swiss small and medium enterprises weather the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from survey data
Nicolas, Christina; Brender, Nathalie; Maradan, David - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
The COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented consequences on businesses and, in particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs...
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Short-Term Sme Financing
Michalski, Grzegorz - 2007
in SME is on relatively higher level than in larger firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225517