Firm Size and the Business Environment: Worldwide Survey Results

By M. Schiffer, Beatrice Weder. 2001

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Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence Across Countries and Bank Ownership Types (2009, background): “, affect their performance) more than large firms (Schiffer and Weder, 2001; IADB, 2004; Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Maksimovic, 2005; and Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, Laeven, and Maksimovic, 2006).”
Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Size Matter? (2002, positive): “These are consistent with the results reported in Schiffer and Weder (2001).”
Bank Financing for SMEs around the World: Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, and Lending Practices (2008, neutral): “, affect their performance) more than large firms (Schiffer and Weder, 2001; IADB, 2004; Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Maksimovic, 2005; and Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, Laeven, and Maksimovic, 2006).”
Bank Financing in China’s Private Sector: The Payoffs of Political Capital (2009, background): “Consistent with the existing literature (Beck et al., 2005; IFC, 2000; Schiffer & Weder, 2001), I create three dummy variables to indicate firm size.”
The Status of Bank Lending to Smes in the Middle East and North Africa Region: The Results of a Joint Survey of the Union of Arab Bank and the World Bank (2011, positive): “2 Schiffer and Weder (2001), IADB (2004) and Beck et al. (2005, 2006 and 2008) show SMEs perceive access to finance and cost of credit to be greater obstacles than large firms and these factors affect their growth.”
Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review* (2020, positive): “These include, but are not limited to, financing obstacles, taxation, regulation, corruption, crime, early international expansion, and deficient management skills (Schiffer and Weder, 2001; Beck and Demirguc-Kunt, 2006; Lee et al., 2012).”
The influence of financial and legal institutions on firm size (2006, background): “Schiffer and Weder (2001), Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Maksimovic (2005) and Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, Laeven and Maksimovic (2006) show that larger firms not only report lower growth constraints, but that the effect of different obstacles is less growth constraining for large than for small firms.”
SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence (2005, background): “Using a firmlevel survey of small, medium-sized and large enterprises in 80 developing, developed and transition economies, Schiffer and Weder (2001) show that small firms face significantly higher growth obstacles in several areas, such as financing, taxation and regulation, exchange rate…”
Entrepreneurship and SME growth: evidence from advanced and laggard transition economies (2011, background): “SMEs in particular were disproportionately affected by these changes as the compliance cost bears more heavily on smaller firms (Storey, 1994; Schiffer and Weder, 2001; Hoshi et al., 2003; Krasniqi, 2010).”
Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint (2006, background): “Schiffer and Weder (2001) show that small firms consistently report higher growth obstacles than medium-size or large firms.”
Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World: A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set (2011, neutral): “For firms, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), access to finance is often the main obstacle to growth (Schiffer and Weder, 2001; Cressy, 2002; IADB, 2004; and Beck et al., 2005, 2006, and 2008).”
Financing the growth of SMEs in Africa: What are the contraints to SME financing within ECOWAS? (2017, background): “A cross-country study y Schiffer and Weder (2001) revealed that the size of a firm is egatively related to the risk it poses to the lender.”