Conference on Small and Medium Enterprises

Papers and Presentations

October 14-15, 2004
World Bank Headquarters

Papers

• Allen Berger and Greg Udell, "A More Complete Conceptual Framework for SME Financing" (121kb)

• Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine, "SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence" (157kb) 

• Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Inessa Love, and Vojislav Maksimovic, "Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision" (167kb)

• Leora Klapper, "The Role of "Reverse Factoring" in Supplier Financing of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises" (206kb)

• Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan, "Business Environment and Firm Entry: Evidence from International Data" (416kb)

• Margaret Miller and Dina Rojas, "Improving Access to Credit for SMEs: An Empirical Analysis of the Viability of Pooled Data SME Credit Scoring Models in Brazil, Colombia & Mexico" (60kb)
  
  
• Robert Cull, Lance Davis, Naomi Lamoreaux, and J. L. Rosenthal, “Historical Financing of SMEs" (182kb)
  
  
• Simeon Djankov et al.,"Who are Russia's Entrepreneurs?" (68kb)

• Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Vojislav Maksimovic, "Financial and Legal Constraints to Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?" (139kb) 

• Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Mojislav Maksimovic, "Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size" (180kb) 

• Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine, "Finance, Firm Size, and Growth" (501kb)
  
  
• Tyler Biggs and Manju Kedia Shah, "African SMEs, Networks, and Manufacturing Performance" (102kb)   

 

Additional papers:

• Small and Medium Enterprises across the Globe: A New Database (111kb)
  Meghana Ayyagari, Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
  
• The Determinants of Financing Obstacles (124kb)
  Thorsten Beck, Aslý Demirgüç-Kunt, Luc Laeven, and Vojislav Maksimovic
  
• Financing Patterns Around the World: Are Small Firms Different? (182kb)
  Thorsten Beck, Aslý Demirgüç Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

 

 

Presentations                                                                                                         

 

Thursday

 

Session I.  SMEs and Economic Development

• "A More Complete Conceptual Framework for SME Financing"
  by Allen Berger and Greg Udell ( presentation  707kb)
  Discussant: Zoltan Acs ( presentation 91kb)
  
• "SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence"  by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine( presentation 364kb)
  Discussant: Aart Kraay ( presentation 35kb)

Session II.  Financing Constraints Faced by SMEs

• "Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Vojislav Maksimovic ( presentation 127kb)
  
• "Historical Financing of SMEs" by Robert Cull, Lance Davis, Naomi Lamoreaux,
  and J. L. Rosenthal ( presentation 118kb)

Session III.  Determinants of Firm Size and Growth

• "Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Vojislav Maksimovic  ( presentation 80kb)
  Discussant: Reena Aggarwal ( presentation 31kb)
  
• "Finance, Firm Size, and Growth" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine ( presentation 63kb)
  Discussant: Stijn Claessens ( presentation 45kb)

Session IV.  Relaxing the Constraints: Country Cases

• "The Role of "Reverse Factoring" in Supplier Financing of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises" by Leora Klapper ( presentation 126kb)

Friday

 

Session V.  Firm Entry and Entrepreneurship

• "Business Environment and Firm Entry: Evidence from International Data" by
  Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan (presentation  95kb)
  
• "Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision" by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt,
  Inessa Love, Vojislav Maksimovic (presentation  36kb)
  Discussant: Chris Woodruff (presentation  39kb)

               

Session VI.  Firm Entry and Entrepreneurship (con't.)

• "Who are Russia" by Simeon Djankov, Edward Miguel, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (presentation  60kb)
  Discussant:  Simon Johnson  (presentation  34kb)

 

Session VII.  Relaxing the Constraints: Case Studies

• "Improving Access to Credit for SMEs: An Empirical Analysis of the Viability of Pooled Data SME, Credit Scoring Models in Brazil, Colombia & Mexico" by Margaret Miller and Dina Rojas (presentation  524kb)
  Discussant:   Augusto de la Torre (presentation  134kb)