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In this paper, by employing a novel approach, we study the relationship between bank type and small-business lending in a post-transition country. Using a unique dataset on bank branches and firm-level data, we find that local cooperative banks lend more to small businesses than do large...
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In this paper, by employing a novel approach, we study the relationship between bank type and small-business lending in a post-transition country. Using a unique dataset on bank branches and firm-level data, we find that local cooperative banks lend more to small businesses than do large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049028
​In this paper, by employing a novel approach, we study the relationship between bank type and small-business lending in a post-transition country. Using a unique dataset on bank branches and firm-level data, we find that local cooperative banks lend more to small businesses than do large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045738
This paper studies the effect of increased application costs on small business loan demand. Using data on loan applications, I find that applicants disproportionately choose loan amounts just below thresholds where credit underwriting requires supplementary information from applicants and...
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Using all loans granted to firms recorded in the Italian credit register, we estimate correlations between risk-transfer and default probabilities to gauge the severity of informational asymmetries in the loan securitization market. First, the analysis confirms the presence of information...
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Using credit register data for loans to Italian firms we test for the presence of asymmetric information in the securitization market by looking at the correlation between the securitization (risk-transfer) and the default (accident) probability. We can disentangle the adverse selection from the...
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We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...
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The present report is a case study on crowdfunding as a finance instrument for SMEs and entrepreneurs. The report aims … improve or hamper SME access to crowdfunding opportunities; to illustrate policy experiences and programme outcomes; and to …
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financial structure, and reviews crowdfunding — a recently developed market-based phenomenon — as an alternative. The paper … argues that crowdfunding approach can effectively solve this systematic problem by filling the gap left by the microcredit … institutions and commercial banks. Crowdfunding can also be used for financing the young startups without replacing business angels …
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