In Asia, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a major share of employment and dominate the economy. Asian economies are often characterized as having bank-dominated financial systems and underdeveloped capital markets, in particular venture capital markets. Hence, looking for...

In recent years new methods and models have been developed to quantify credit risk on a portfolio basis. CreditMetrics (tm), CreditRisk+, CreditPortfolio (tm) are among the best known and many others are similar to them. At first glance they are quite different in their approaches and...

Our paper addresses firm size as a driver of systematic credit risk in loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Key contributions are the use of a unique data set of SME lending by over 400 German banks and relating systematic risk to the size dependence of regulatory capital requirements....

Im Jahr 2004 wurde erstmals Mezzanine-Kapital in Form von Genussscheinen verbrieft und an mittelständische Unternehmen vergeben. Viele Mittelständler nahmen, durch ihre Wachstumspläne beflügelt, das als wirtschaftliches Eigenkapital zählende Mez-zanine-Kapital zu sehr günstigen Konditionen...