Professor Yamori has in the past conducted questionnaires about the Tokai (Tawada and Yamori: 2005) and Kansai regions (Tawada and Yamori: 2008) as a means of acquiring insight into the realities of finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan.Now, with the cooperation of Daegu Bank...

In this paper, to analyze the similarities and differences between the regional finance of Japan and South Korea (hereinafter, “Korea”), we compared questionnaires to small to midsize companies located in Korea’s Daegu/Gyeongbuk region with questionnaires to small to midsize companies...