This study examines the role of religiosity at province level in Indonesia on the financing activities in both Islamic and conventional banks. Covering the period from 2013-2018, this study uses five different measures of religiosity namely: Islamic school, hajj application, Islamic seminary...

We explore the role of trust in Islamic culture in business to business relationship by exploring the link between bank managers' trust in business customers and their financing decision. In line with our expectations based on the fact that Islamic culture is characterized by a collectivistic...

Firms can be credit constrained either because a loan has been denied by the lender or because they decide not to apply for such a loan due to expected rejection. Using a large sample of European small and medium enterprises, we investigate the relationship between gender and credit constraints....

We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. We find that female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. Moreover, the impact of female leadership on firm...

We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when em- ployer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discrimi- nate against non-college educated black workers at time of...

We investigate the role of the judicial system on whether or not the firms obtain the credit they applied for, by looking at the strength of the creditor protection, the strength of property rights, the time for resolving a dispute, its costs and the number of procedures the plaintiff faces. We...

This research adds to the literature on relationship lending in the small business context by discussing the roles of entrepreneurial competence and voluntarily disclosed information as determinants of credit access. More specifically, we propose that the loan manager's evaluation of the...

This article examines trade credit decision in Western Europe using a comprehensive sample of 182,296 SMEs for the period 2003-2013. We develop a theoretical framework based on information asymmetry, financial distress and the role of country informal institutions. The results show that country...

We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female leadership increases with the share of female workers. This...