Agostino, Mariarosaria; Gagliardi, Francesca; Trivieri, … - In: Review of Financial Economics 19 (2010) 4, pp. 151-160
Based on a large panel of Italian SMEs, this paper focuses on the relationship between firms' default probability and the amount of bank debt they obtain, evaluating whether and to what extent this link is affected by the degree of competition characterizing the local credit market where firms...