Bank competition and access to finance: international evidence

Using a unique database for 74 countries and for firms of small, medium, and large size we assess the effect of banking market structure on the access of firms to bank finance. We find that bank concentration increases obstacles to obtaining finance, but only in countries with low levels of economic and institutional development.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Beck, Thorsten ; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli ; Maksimovic, Vojislav
Published in:	Proceedings. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. - 2004, p. 627-654
Publisher:	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Subject:	Bank competition

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Type of publication:	Article
Notes:	Published in Journal of money, credit, and banking, v. 36, no. 3, pt. 2, June 2004
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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