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Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Maslov, Egor; Sørensen, Bent E. - 2019

Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...

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The impact of peer-to-peer lending on small business loans

Kim, Jin-hyuk; Stähler, Frank - 2020

We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...

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Bank financing for SMEs around the world drivers, obstacles, business models, and lending practices

Beck, Thorsten (contributor); … - 2008

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la (contributor); … - 2008

"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper shows that, despite alleged differences in the...

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …