Lending to Small and Medium-Sized Firms: Is There an East-West Gap in Germany?

With German reunification in 1990, the EastGerman economy has been challenged to be transformedfrom a centrally planned economy to acompetitive market economy with the samestandard of living as in West Germany. Thegeneral intention has been to close the hugeeconomic gap between East German and WestGerman states as soon as possible with supportfrom federal state authorities, the corporate sectorand the banking sector...

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Year of publication:	2002-05-27
Authors:	Lehmann, Erik ; Neuberger, Doris ; Räthke, Solvig
Institutions:	Universität <Augsburg> / Lehrstuhl für BWL, Schwerpunkt Unternehmensführung und Organisation
Published in:	Universität Augsburg - Lehrstuhl für BWL, Schwerpunkt Unternehmensführung und Organisation - Publikationen in: Small Business Economics ; 23 (2004), S. 2339
Subject:	Klein- und Mittelbetrieb \| Vergleich \| Westdeutschland

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1. Introduction
2. Financial intermediation and terms of landing
2.1 Theoretical issues
2.2 Previous empirical results
3. Regional economics and credit risk
3.1 Theoretical issues
3.2 Previous empirical results
4. Analysis of an East-West lending gap
4.1 Hypothesis
4.2 Data measurement and descriptive statistics
4.3 Estimations
5 Conclusions and policy implications
Acknowledgements
Notes

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