The Determinants of Growth for Small and Medium Sized Firms. The Role of the Availability of External Finance

By Leonardo Becchetti, Giovanni Trovato. 2002

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The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans (2015, neutral): “However, an important subset of barriers that has received attention relates to finance (Becchetti and Trovato 2002; Beck et al. 2005; Beck and Demirguc-Kunt 2006).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance (2012, result): “Becchetti and Trovato (2002) find qualitatively similar results using a sample of Indian firms, and Desai, Foley and Forbes (2008) confirm the same relation in a currency crisis setting.”
The impact of financial constraints on firm survival and growth (2007, background): “Other papers, namely Becchetti and Trovato (2002) and Savignac (2006), use survey data whereby firms themselves give a self-assessment of their difficulty to access external financial funds. There are a few weaknesses related to the above strategies. First, Hubbard (1998) notes how most of the chose”
DETERMINANTS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED FAST GROWING ENTERPRISES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS (2010, background): “Other empirical studies (e.g., Becchetti and Trovato, 2002; Carpenter and Petersen, 2002) have confirmed that the constrained availability of finance affect small firm growth.”
The impact of small- and medium-sized family firms on economic growth (2015, background): “…La Porta et al. 1999).1 Studies also show that family SMEs have different organizational goals, resources, risk-taking propensities, and investment horizons from non-family SMEs (e.g., Becchetti and Trovato 2002; Donckels and Frochlich 1991; Kotlar et al. 2014; Sharma, Chrisman and Chua 1997).”
Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates (2015, background): “Second , there is a survivorship bias with respect to ﬁ rms that have successfully traded in the market-place as independent businesses (Becchetti and Trovato, 2002; Kannebley et al., 2010).”
Financial Constraints and Firm Export Behavior (2010, positive): “(e.g. Becchetti and Trovato, 2002 ) use survey data where firms give a self-assessment of their”
Evaluation of credit guarantee policy using propensity score matching (2009, background): “Becchetti and Trovato (2002) in their analysis on Italian SMEs argued that, small surviving firms are characterized to have a higher growth potential than average firms and are not fully utilizing their growth potential due to the scarce availability of external finance.”
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, neutral): “Credit constraints and a lack of financial capital in general should limit the rate of entry of new businesses as well as their likelihood of survival and rate of growth (Becchetti and Trovato 2002; Carpenter and Petersen 2002; Aghion, Fally, and Scarpetta 2007).”
High-growth SMEs versus non-high-growth SMEs: a discriminant analysis (2007, background): “2002), Italy (Bechetti and Trovato 2002), Japan (Wijiwardema and Cooray 1995, Goddard et al.”
Do liquidity constraints matter in explaining firm size and growth? Some evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry (2006, background): “Second, as noticed by Becchetti and Trovato (2002) and Elston (2002), cash flow can be 14Cf. e.g. Audretsch and Elston (2002), Kaplan and Zingales (1997) and Fazzari, Hubbard, and Petersen (1996).”
Entrepreneurial alliances as contractual forms (2003, background): “…has noted that small businesses in particular are often costly to locate as exchange partners (Deeds, DeCarolis, & Coombs, 1999), and they also find it more difficult to signal their business prospects to investors in a credible fashion (e.g., McConnell & Pettit, 1984; Becchetti & Trovato, 2002).”
Small business growth: recent evidence and new directions (2007, methodology): “This is the converse of the stochastic approach described above ( Becchetti and Trovato, 2002”