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Tuesday 4th April 2006
Venue: Scarman
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| 09.00 |
Registration and coffee |
| 10.00 |
Introduction and welcome to the Conference: Professor David Storey
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| 10.15 |
Keynote Presentation: Dr John Wolken
The Federal Reserve's Surveys of Small Business Finances: Preliminary Results from the 2003 Survey
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| 11.00 |
Keynote Presentation: Dr Charles Ou
Banking and SME Financing in the USA
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| 11.45 |
Keynote Presentation: Dr Arito Ono
Development of SME Financing in Japan
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.45 |
Keynote Presentation: Dr Stuart Fraser
Findings from 2004 UK Survey of SME Finances
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| 14.30 |
Parallel Session 1 - Policy I
Kim Kaivanto and Paul Stoneman*
Public Provision of Sales Contingent Claims Backed Finance to SMEs: A Policy Alternative
Andreas Nabor
Financing Technology in Japan
Roger Svensson
Commercialization of Patents and External Financing during the R&D Phase
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| 14.30 |
Parallel Session 2 - Access to Finance I
Tadao Kimura
SME Financing in Japan: The Status Quo and the Issues at Hand - Hopes for Cooperative Financing
Jyrki Niskanen and Mervi Niskanen*
Small Business Borrowing and the Owner-Manager Agency Costs: Evidence of Finnish Data
Arito Ono* and Iichiro Uesugi
The Role of Collateral and Personal Guarantees in Relationship Lending: Evidence from Japan's Small Business Loan Market
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| 14.30 |
Parallel Session 3 - Equity Finance
Sylvie Cieply and Wojtek Sikorzewski*
Buyouts and Venture Capital Firms: Strategies of Managers-Owners
Philip Roscoe* and Carole Howorth
Chart Appeal: Private Investment in Smaller Company Markets
Alfredo Del Monte*, Antonio Acconcia and Luca Pennacchio
The Determinants of Regional Distribution of IPOs: The Case of Italy
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| 14.30 |
Parallel Session 4 - SME Banking I
Pietro Alessandrini, Giorgio Calcagnini and Alberto Zazzaro*
Asset Restructuring Strategies in Bank Acquisitions: Evidence from the Italian Banking Industry
Elisa Quinto*, Rita Romeo and Valeria Venturelli*
The Nexus between Banking Structure and Economic Development: A Regional Perspective at a European Level
Peter Scott and Lucy Newton*
Jealous Monopolists? British Banks and Responses to the Macmillan Gap During the 1930s
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| 15.45 |
Afternoon Tea |
| 16.15 |
Parallel Session 5 - Female Entrepreneurs
Susan Marlow* and Sara Carter
If You Don't Ask You Don't Get! Women, Self Employment and Finance
Sara Carter*, Eleanor Shaw, Fiona Wilson, Wing Lam and Stephen Tagg
Gender, Entrepreneurship and Bank Lending: The Role of Perceptions, Loan Criteria and Bank Processes
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| 16.15 |
Parallel Session 6 - SME Banking II
Liang Han*, David Storey and Stuart Fraser
The Concentration of Creditors: Evidence from Small Businesses
Alex Cobham
Firm Size: The Neglected Determinant of Investment Financing
Doris Neuberger* and Solvig Rathke
Microenterprises and Multiple Bank Relationships: Evidence from a Survey Among Professionals
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| 16.15 |
Parallel Session 7 - Access to Finance II
Blair Robertson
Getting their Share: Small Business Finance in New Zealand: Findings from the 2004 Business Finance Survey
Javed Hussain*, Cindy Millman and Harry Matlay
Access to Entrepreneurial Finance: An International Perspective
Mervi Niskanen*, Hannu Littunen and Jyrki Niskanen
Small Business Borrowing and the Agency Costs of Family Ownership
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| 17.30 |
First Day Resume: Professor David Storey |
| 19.00 |
Conference Dinner: Guest Speaker, Teresa Graham OBE |
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Wednesday 5th April 2006
Venue: Scarman
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| 09.00 |
Policy Forum: Chaired by Professor David Storey |
| 10.30 |
Coffee |
| 11.00 |
Parallel Session 8 - Capital Structure
Graham Hall*, Patrick Hutchinson and Nicos Michaelas
East and West: Differences in SME Capital Structure Between Former Soviet-Bloc and Non Soviet-Bloc European Countries
Ciaran mac an Bhaird
An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study on the Capital Structures of Irish SMEs
Peter J Buckley and Jane Frecknall Hughes*
The Role of Finance and Organisational Form in Business Growth Models
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| 11.00 |
Parallel Session 9 - Policy II
Francesco Gangi* and Francesco Campanella*
The Basel II Accord Analysis of SME Competiveness and Credit Ratings in Southern Italy: An Empirical Survey
Anna Spadavecchia
Surviving under the Shelter of Government Subsidies or 'Avoiding Diaster'? New Evidence from the Italian Industrial Districts, 1971-1991
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| 11.00 |
Parallel Session 10 - Emerging Issues
George Saridakis*, Kevin Mole and David Storey
New Small Firm Survival in the UK
Navjot Sandhu
Finance Gap Amongst Smaller Farmers in India, Punjab
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| 12.30 |
Close of Conference: Professor David Storey |
| 13.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 |
Optional Tour of Warwick Castle - prebooking necessary |
