-sized enterprise (SME) sector, it is crucial for banks to distinguish healthy SMEs from risky ones. This chapter examines how a credit …

This paper develops a theory of corporate hedging in a financial contracting framework. In an economy with moral hazard … and state uncertainty, the optimal financial contract incorporates both non-monitoring (arm's length) finance and …

A hedging contract may be closed before maturity when a firm experiences an ``event of default,'' such as a credit …

liabilities. However, its effects on SME performance and risk have been insufficiently studied. The competitiveness of SMEs … indicate that an SME’s SCF adoption positively impacts its performance but negatively impacts its risk. To further explore … exploring the multiple facets of SCF adoption and highlighting the moderating role of buyer-supplier relationship in SCF and SME …

consisting of SME loans in a commercial bank operating in one of the quickly developing banking markets, i.e. in Slovenia … concentrates on corporate bond markets to estimate losses in the event of default, we use a unique individual bank data set on SME … in the specific bank, but also to the evaluation of SME loans characteristics in developing markets …

, allowing lending institutions to recognize healthy SMEs. It is crucial for governments to collect SME data and prepare rich … this paper we define and describe in detail the role and characteristics of Japan's CRD in SME development and explain how … contributions to SME development and boost economic growth. …