Getting access to sufficient funding is the keystone for the development of any business, but
especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These economic entities are crucial …

The corona crisis has affected not only the economic sphere, but also the sphere of health,
health care, employment, safety, and health protection in the workplace, shopping habits …

Based on the China City Commercial Credit Environment Index (CEI), a more scientific
spatial DID model was used to examine the long-term impact of the opening of ports and …

Small companies face significant difficulties in accessing finance, and the use of bank credit
and trade credit are the primary sources of financing, specifically in small countries, with little …

Using an unbalanced panel dataset that contains financial information of 46,340 small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across 11 European countries over 2007–2015, this study …

Using panel vector autocorrelation models (Panel VaR), we examine the dynamic
interrelationships between short-term financing sources for a large sample of 8,464 firm-year …

Based on an exogenous shock—the 2008 revision of the Catalog of Technologies
Prohibited and Restricted from Export in China—we use a difference-in-differences (DID) …

This paper investigates the presence of the credit channel using firm-level panel data of 450
firms listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange from 1988-2021. Moreover, it uses a two-step …

South Africa experiences surging unemployment, severe income inequality, and high levels
of poverty. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to be an important …

After the Great Recession of 2008, the world is experiencing another major recession in
2020. This recession is primarily caused by the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic …