medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Southeast Asian economies (Indonesia …, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam). Analysis of microdata from enterprise surveys highlights key aspects of SME …, when it comes to external finance, SMEs typically use informal non-bank credit sources more than banks. Third, there is a …

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment …

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment …

This paper studies how access to bank lending differed between family and non-family firms in the 2007-2009 financial … borrower-lender relationship. Using highly detailed data on bank-firm relations, we exploit the reduction in bank lending in … differences between the two types of firms and to time-varying bank fixed effects. We further show that the difference in the …

We study the effect of financial distress in foreign parent banks on local SME financing in 14 central and eastern … by the following types of bank financial distress: 1) low equity ratio; 2) low Tier 1 capital ratio; and 3) losses on … crunch ; financial crisis ; bank lending channel ; business lending …

availability by including a set of unlisted firms (which are the firms most likely to be bank dependent) in the analysis, and by … data on ownership by banks are available, a higher concentration of ownership of the firm by either the main bank or the … firm's top three lenders increases the likelihood of the firm obtaining increased loans, suggesting that bank ownership of …

This paper analyzes the effects of the financial crisis on credit supply by using highly detailed data on bank … borrowers' risk, by exploiting multiple lending. We find evidence of a contraction of credit supply, associated to low bank …' productivity and interest rates at bank-firm level …