Iichiro, UESUGI; Hirofumi, UCHIDA; Yuta, MIZUSUGI - Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) - 2014
Employing massive contract- and firm-level data provided by the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Unit of the Japan Finance Corporation (JFC), one of the largest government lending institutions for SMEs, and linking the data with other firm-level data from a business credit information company,...