Institutions, Financial Development, and Small Business Survival: Evidence from European Emerging Markets

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In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of financial development exhibit statistically significant and economically meaningful impacts on the survival probability of the SMEs being researched. The evidence holds even when we control for a set of firm-level characteristics such as ownership structure, financial performance, firm size, and age. The findings are also uniform across industries and country groups and robust beyond the difference in assumption of hazard distribution, firm size, region, and time period.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8641

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Bankruptcy; Liquidation ; Business Economics
• Subject: small business ; institutions ; financial development ; survival analysis ; European emerging markets

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Iwasaki, Ichiro ; Kocenda, Evžen ; Shida, Yoshisada
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/229459
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET