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Financing Canadian SME Exporters

Allan Riding, University of Ottawa
Prescott Ensign, University of Ottawa
Brad Belanger, Industry Canada

June 2007

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This empirical paper compares access to, and terms of, commercial lending between small and medium-sized exporter and non-exporter firms. Theory suggests that exporter firms might be relatively disadvantaged. This is found to be true for new firms (international new ventures), but no differences were identified between established exporter and non-exporter firms.

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