Globally, micro and small businesses require finance to support their business activities.
Most of them have low profits because of the lack of support from the formal financial system …

This study investigates bank financing to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and
evaluates whether the difficulties of SMEs in accessing bank financing during a period of …

This study aims to apply the golden ratio to the capital structure of non-financial institutions
in France and the United Kingdom to find the effect of the golden ratio's deviation from the …

Financial inclusion is known to be relevant for improving the growth perspectives of
microbusinesses. This research has three aims. First, to explore how adopting business …

The study investigates the role of market-based finance and public financial support in
aiding scaling up by European SMEs. First, we analyse the impact of public loan guarantee …

This paper investigates the risk of failure of loans guaranteed by public credit guarantee
schemes. We analyse the determinants of the time to default of approximately 15,000 loans …

The vast majority of firms in Europe are micro firms. Still, we know little about their financing
patterns. Our paper aims to close this gap. Based on a large European firm-level data set …

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of small and medium enterprise (SME) access to
capital markets across Eurozone countries. First, we determine which factors—at firm and …

Purpose Bootstrap** is a practitioner-based term adopted in entrepreneurship to describe
the techniques employed in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to …

Small and medium businesses contribute to the economies of developed and develo**
countries. However, they face constraints that are very different from large businesses. Chief …