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In this paper, we study the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
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We develop a macroeconomic portfolio stress test that is specifically geared towards small and medium-sized banks. We combine a credit risk stress test which simulates credit impairments via a CreditMetrics type multi-factor portfolio model with an income stress test in the form of dynamic panel...
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). Key contributions are the use of a unique data set of SME lending by over 400 German banks and relating systematic risk to … granted in Basel II for SMEs relative to large firms. For SME loans in the corporate portfolio of the Internal Ratings …-Based Approach and also for SME loans treated under the revised standardized approach of Basel II, our asset correlation estimates …
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This paper examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of minimum risk-based capital requirements and the introduction of the leverage ratio. The announcement of stricter risk-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized...
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consistency of own funds requirements with the riskiness of SME. In both the French and the German sample, results suggest that … the relative differences between the capital requirements for large corporates and those for SME (in other words the … capital relief for SME) are lower in the Basel III framework than implied by empirically estimated asset correlations. Results …
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factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …
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for urban households and are more important for microfinance institutions, than for traditional banks. -- Remittances … ; Mexico ; Financial Access ; Microfinance …
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