firms' access to credit markets plays an important role in explaining this stylized fact: business cycle fluctuations in … addition, better access of small firms to credit markets in the wake of state-level banking deregulation during the 1980s seems … better access to credit markets may have made it easier for the owners of small firms to smooth income in the face of adverse …

This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … analysis of the supply- and demand-side on the credit market shows that women are not more likely to be denied credit but the … probability that they apply for credit is on average lower. Yet, this gender difference in the probability of credit application …

variables prove to affect loan prices, collateral requirements and credit availability. …