employing the intensity of banking competition at the district level as an exclusion restriction. We can explain the better …

Despite the relevance of credit financing for the profit and risk situation of commercial banks only little empirical … evidence on the initial credit decision and monitoring process exists due to the lack of appropriate data on bank debt … research project on "Credit Management" which was designed to fill this empirical void. The data set contains a broad list of …

This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a … analysis of the supply- and demand-side on the credit market shows that women are not more likely to be denied credit but the …

Die Unternehmensfinanzierung in Deutschland steht vor grundlegenden Umwälzungen. Die Arbeit stellt die … Finanzierungsalternative Private Debt, das heißt privat platzierte Fremdkapital- und Mezzanine-Kapital-Finanzierungen, für die spezielle Gruppe …