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Debt Restructuring and the Role of Lending Technologies
Micucci, Giacinto - 2010
The literature on debt restructuring usually assumes that banks behave in a uniform way towards firms in distress. Using a recent survey of Italian banks, we show that banks follow different strategies when they decide whether to take part in the workout process, in that some of them do...
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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises
Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016
elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … the results from the survey reveal that few Thai manufacturing SMEs actively seek external finance from these institutions …. Foreign commercial banks also help enhance SME technical efficiency. The results show that larger SMEs have superior …
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Is bigger necessarily better in community banking?
Hughes, Joseph P.; Jagtiani, Julapa; Mester, Loretta J. - 2016
We investigate the relative performance of publicly traded community banks (those with assets less than $10 billion) versus larger banks (those with assets between $10 billion and $50 billion). A body of research has shown that community banks have potential advantages in relationship lending...
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Bridging the "missing middle" between microfinance and small and medium-sized enterprise finance in South Asia
Shankar, Savita - 2016
With maturity in the microfinance market in South Asia, it is observed that some microfinance members' needs grow beyond the boundaries of traditional microfinance group loans. In addition, there are other small enterprises whose needs are not met by microfinance institutions or commercial...
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Does Bank Size Matter in Financing Small Business Innovation?
Dalla Pellegrina, Lucia - 2013
Using data at the bank‐firm level for a large sample of small firms collected through the 8th UniCredit Survey conducted in 2011, we investigate the extent to which banks of different size reward more innovative firms, in terms of both access to lending and volume of credit granted. First we...
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Is Lending Distance Really Changing? Distance Dynamics and Loan Composition in Small Business Lending
Adams, Robert M. - 2020
Has information technology improved small businesses' credit access by hardening the information used in loan underwriting and reducing the importance of lender proximity? Previous research, pointing to increasing average lending distances, suggests that it has. Using over 20 years of Community...
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What determines the growth of micro firms in the euro area?
Dēmelē, Sophias P.; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Louri, Helen - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 5 (2016) 4, pp. 145-151
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Does scale matter in community bank performance? : evidence obtained by applying several new measures of performance
Hughes, Joseph P.; Jagtiani, Julapa; Mester, Loretta J.; … - 2019 - Revised May 2019
We consider how size matters for banks in three size groups: small community banks with assets less than $1 billion, large community banks with assets between $1 billion and $10 billion, and midsize banks with assets between $10 billion and $50 billion. To illustrate the differences between...
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Local financial development, access to credit and SMEs' performance : evidence from Bangladesh
Hossain, Monzur; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2018
This paper tests whether local financial development matters for SMEs' growth performance. We develop a theoretical … expansion at subdistrict level could ease access to finance and thereby improve performances of SMEs in developing countries. …
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Does scale matter in community bank performance? : evidence obtained by applying several new measures of performance
Hughes, Joseph P.; Jagtiani, Julapa; Mester, Loretta J.; … - 2018
SUPERSEDES WP16-15 We consider how size matters for banks in three size groups: banks with assets of less than $1 billion (small community banks), banks with assets between $1 billion and $10 billion (large community banks), and banks with assets between $10 billion and $50 billion (midsize...
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