Previous research on relationship lending has paid very little attention to the role of trust. Trust might be ex … hypothesis. The results show that trust has a minor role in reducing the request of collateral. …

Trust is a key dimension in the principal-agent relationship and it has been studied extensively. However, the dynamics … motivation of trust and it proposes a theoretical model of trust evolution that is based on the notion of ‘trust response’ and … ‘trust spiral’. We then specifically focus on trust within the lending relationship between banks and small businesses, and …

-um sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, the role of trust in accessing finance for such enterprises is under … trust that suppliers and bank managers have in the enterprise. The extended model, suggests that the higher the level of … trust that bank managers and suppliers have in the SME, the more short-term finance an SME can obtain and should use. …

Previous research on relationship lending has paid very little attention to the role of trust. Trust might be ex … hypothesis. The results show that trust has a minor role in reducing the request of collateral. …

This paper examines the effect of trust in a micro-economic environment, where trust is clearly exogenous. Using a hand …-collected data on European venture capital, we show that the Eurobarometer measure of trust among nations significantly affects … and transaction costs. The national identity of venture capital firms' partners is shown to matter for the effect of trust …