...Jonathan B Cohn; Edith S Hotchkiss; Erin M Towery In this section, we outline three potential sources of value creation in PE buyouts of private firms: improvements in operating performance, relaxation of financing constraints that limit growth, and increased debt tax shields (i.e., financial...

... uses a consistent firm-level data from the World Banks Enterprise Surveys to explore the impact of financialisation in the economy on firms’ access to finance in 138 developing countries. Access to finance reflects survey-based firms’ perceptions of external financing constraints. Financialisation...

... risk management hedging investments financing policy financing constraints gold mining industry European Finance Review 6: 163–187, 2002. 163 © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Do Firms Use Derivatives to Reduce...

... of minority-owned businesses. It first reviews findings from the previous literature on financing constraints and related constraints faced by minority firms. Next it conducts an extensive empirical analysis of the barriers to financing faced by minority-owned firms using data from three sources: the Survey...

... financial sector mobile banking Small and medium enterprises financing constraints banking sector access to working capital access to investment finance Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing is an age-old problem in Cameroon just as in other developing countries. The SMEs typically use...

... to the finance of growth, identifying the main causes of constraints and the type of firms most affected by them. It demonstrates how venture capital can mitigate financing constraints and surveys the empirical evidence about its impact on firm growth before summarizing the findings. References Aghion, P...