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barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The paper discusses key barriers to SMEs' access to finance and suggests …
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-sized enterprises (SMEs) is low. The objective of the research is to establish the determinants in factoring adoption that allow greater … access to financing by SMEs. For this purpose, a qualitative study was carried out through in-depth interviews with ten …
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Using a unique dataset based on the Bank of Italy's organizational survey, we find that – after having controlled for bank size – loan officers' authority has a key role in explaining bank specialization in small business lending. In particular, banks that delegate more decision-making power...
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A vast literature has emphasized that small banks are at a comparative advantage in small business lending. In this paper, we show that apart from size, which is negatively correlated with bank specialization in small business lending, organizational characteristics affect bank loan portfolio...
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We examined the extent to which SMEs financing influenced economic growth in Nigeria through the use of time … SMEs did not retain the massive effect on growth as seen in previous studies. We can attribute this to our choice of … recommendations to the Federal Government and the apex bank are; capital inflows vis-à-vis affordable local loans to SMEs at single …
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(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 operating in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, we find … future pandemic on SMEs. Additionally, we quantify the impact of closure on SMEs and find that firms having reported to have …
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-size enterprises (SMEs) in 113 countries around the world. Our results from a probit selection model indicate that higher bank market …
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-credit among SMEs in Nigeria and make recommendations. Both the questionnaire and personal interview methods were used to generate … still very slow in lending to SMEs. They believe that SMEs are usually not properly organized and therefore consider lending … adequate collateral. These stringent loan processes frequently cut off many SMEs from having access to bank credit, and to …
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