Farmer

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Completed research project

Title / Titel	Financing of Microenterprises - Is Peer-to-Peer Lending a financing source for companies of smale size in Switzerland?
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Original title / Originaltitel	Finanzierung von Mikrounternehmen - Peer-to-Peer Lending als potentielle neue Finanzierungsform für Mikrounternehmen in des Schweiz?
Summary / Zusammenfassung	On the one hand this project aims at analyzing the financing behavior of microenterprises in Switzerland. On the other hand it raises the question if the new phenomenon of ‘Peer-to-Peer-Lending’ could possibly be a new source of financing especially for those small-scale companies.
Keywords / Suchbegriffe	Entrepreneurship, Financing of SME, Mezzanin Capital, Peer-to-Peer Lending, Microfinance
Project leadership and contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte	MMag. rer. soc. oec. Elisabeth Farmer (Project Leader) farmer@isb.uzh.ch
Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch	Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career)
Duration of Project / Projektdauer	Sep 2007 to Sep 2009