This paper deals with the question of whether public venture capital (VC) isperforming its task properly, taking a look at how public VC companies’ selectionprocess, investment behavior, and consulting services reflect goals that differ fromthose of private VC firms. The results present...

The transformation of private savers’ funds into business loans – the very essential function ofbanking intermediation - is weak in Belarus compared to other Eastern European economies.High concentration, governmental interference, an inconsistent regulation and a difficultbusiness environment...

A large body of literature has shown that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries. Banks can overcome these asymmetries through relationship lending, or at least mitigate their effects by asking for collateral. Small firms, especially...

Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-upfinance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-basedsystems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capitalhas not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct a...

Der aktuell diskutierte Gesetzentwurf für eine Reform der Einlagensicherung in Weißrusslandverfolgt das Hauptziel, mehr Sparmittel der Bevölkerung für das planwirtschaftliche Wirtschaftssystemverfügbar zu machen. Bei einer nicht passgenau auf die Landessituation abgestimmtenAusgestaltung...

This paper examines whether recently introduced “village funds”, one of the largestmicrofinance programs ever implemented, improve access to finance. Village funds areanalyzed in a cross-sectional approach in relation to competing financial institutions. We find,first, that they reach the...