Moro, Andrea; Lucas, Mike R.; Kodwani, Devendra - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 16 (2012) 1, pp. 57-79
Previous research on relationship lending has paid very little attention to the role of trust. Trust might be ex-pected to reduce agency costs, perceived credit risk and thus the request for personal collateral. Trustworthiness is associated with three attributes of SME owner/managers': ability,...