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When arm's length is too far : relationship banking over the business cycle
Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375321
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050469
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Private Equity Industry in Africa : Firm Survival and Growth
Ngalim, Lawrence; Togan Egrican, Asli - 2023
Availability of private equity markets in Africa are quite limited even though this type of financing creates an … within each investment stage in Sub-Saharan Africa is an important source of external financing for firms … environment for entrepreneurial firms to gain access to finance. Availability of private equity financing opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254659
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ICT adoption and stock market development in Africa : an application of the panel ARDL bounds testing procedure
Igwilo, Jerry Ikechukwu; Sibindi, Athenia Bongani - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-15
the causal relationship between ICT adoption and stock market development in Africa. The study examined a panel of 11 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799415
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Linkages between financial development, financial instability, financial liberalisation and economic growth in Africa
Batuo, Enowbi; Mlambo, Kupukile; Asongu, Simplice - 2017
In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, the implications of financial liberalisation for stability and economic growth has come under increased scrutiny. One strand of literature posits a positive relationship between financial liberalisation and economic growth and development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698477
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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
We conduct face-to-face interviews with bank CEOs to classify 397 banks across 21 countries as either relationship or transaction lenders. We then use the geographic coordinates of these banks' branches and of 14,100 businesses to analyze how the lending techniques of banks in the vicinity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972990
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048226
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051624
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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578223
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Do natural resource sectors rely less on external finance than manufacturing sectors?
Hattendorff, Christian - 2012
The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580846