 Bank Support and Export: Evidence from Small Italian FirmsFrancesca Bartoli,
Giovanni Ferri,
Pierluigi Murro and
Zeno Rotondi
No 42, SERIES from Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" Abstract: The ability of a country and its businesses to grow is tightly related to the possibility of exporting and penetrating into foreign markets. The aim of this paper is to study whether bank support can help small businesses (SBs) exporting at the extensive as well as the intensive margin. We address this issue by using a large database on Italian small firms based on a specific designed survey. We provide an empirical analysis of the role of bank support in a§ecting the firms’ export decisions. Our results show that among the exporting SBs those using bank services to support their exports have a higher probability of being better placed in both intensive and extensive margin. More importantly, these positive impacts on export are statistically significant only when the main bank of the firm is an internationalized bank. These results have relevant policy implications as well as consequences for the business models of internationalized banks. Keywords: Small business finance; Margins of export; Bank-firm relationships; External Finance. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bai:series:economia-series42 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in SERIES from Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" Largo Abbazia S. Scolastica, 53 - 70124 - Bari - ITALY. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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