This article examines a number of the most important issues surrounding SME access to
finance in a European context. It does this through the lens of the lending channel paradigm …

Bank loans are a vital resource for SMEs financing because of the reduced possibilities of
these firms to find alternative sources of financing. In the context of the current crisis, the …

Governments responded appropriately to a tightening of access to entrepreneurial finance
during the global financial and economic crisis by introducing new and expanded programs …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (eg Italy,
Spain) pay significantly higher borrowing rates than their peers of the core (eg Germany …

Current literature does not agree on the impact that Basel regulation is having onto the
banking system, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and the single country …

This paper investigates Basel III potential effects on SME access to bank credit. In an
innovative empirical framework, French small firms are studied using microdata over the …

The study sought to examine the effect of CAMEL rating model on financial stability of
commercial banks in Kenya. This paper was extracted from the Doctoral dissertation of the …

The approach of the study is qualitative, whereas the theoretical framework has been used
in the literature review. The empirical results were acquired from the interviews of various …

Stock markets perform a creation function if the inflow of financial capital in the birth of new
privately-held firms is stimulated by the promise of stock market liquidity at a later point in …

In this master thesis we examine how the level of internationalization, ie a firm's relative
exposure to foreign sales, affects individual SMEs in Sweden. Since it is conducted using a …