We investigate the impact of financing and legal obstacles on firm growth across different
firm sizes before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). Using two enterprise surveys in …

Purpose Based on 9,281 firm-level survey data on micro, small and medium enterprises
(MSMEs) in India, this study aims to investigate how access to different finance sources and …

We examine the effect of financial constraints on firms' employment growth. We use the
maturing debt approach which uses the fact that the amount of long term credit maturing in a …

This study provides fresh empirical evidence on the influence of various financing sources
on firms' technology investments and exporting decisions using a panel of firms from the …

The effects of credit supply shocks on the exports of services are not clear a priori. On the
one hand, services need lower initial investment in physical capital than manufacturing. On …

Measuring firms' financial constraints can prove to be a difficult task for researchers because
it is not possible to directly observe whether a firm is financially constrained. This chapter …

Le crédit aux entreprises n'est désormais plus l'apanage exclusif des banques. Le marché
français du crédit aux entreprises a vu apparaître ces dernières années des plateformes …

This analytic paper examines the status of small and medium sized enterprises (SME)
worldwide, provides theoretical information and explores issues regarding their …