We investigate foreign banks' interest in financing small and medium sized enterprises in Ukraine, a country where massive foreign bank entry took place in a late stage of transition. We use unique, self-collected bank-level data on banks' involvement with SMEs in 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2010. We...

After 1990, the crises in planned economies has resulted with accept of the free market system and disintegration of this country blocks. The transition economies are defined as process of approaching work to the free market system of markets. Privatization efforts especially in finance markets...