This paper focuses on the access of independent French SMEs to bank lending and
analyzes whether the observed evolution of credit to SMEs over the recent period was …

Das vorliegende Handbuch soll einen Überblick über die Befragungen des ifo Instituts
sowie die daraus resultierenden Konjunkturindikatoren und deren Verwendung für die …

This study examines the importance of credit demand and credit supply-related factors in
explaining the evolution of credit granted to Portuguese SMEs. The results suggest that the …

Cross-country divergence in credit availability to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has
been a salient feature of the recent Euro Area economic crisis. This paper uses firm level …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to
other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly …

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate credit rationing across firms in euro zone
countries, as it relates to its own sovereign credit ratings. Design/methodology/approach The …

We employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to investigate the transmission
of the global financial crisis via the collapse of export demand (trade channel) and through …

DCBPS, INFR and M2gr are leptokurtic, according to the descriptive analysis, which also
showed that all the variables were normally distributed; All the variables were stationary and …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a credit crunch occurred in Germany
during the recent financial crisis and to analyze the underlying factors. In order to …