This paper unearths a systematic problem in financing the small business firms in Bangladesh with the country's present financial structure, and reviews crowdfunding — a recently developed market-based phenomenon — as an alternative. The paper argues that crowdfunding approach can...

This study uses Japanese data to address an important shortcoming of most of the existing literature on credit availability by including a set of unlisted firms (which are the firms most likely to be bank dependent) in the analysis, and by investigating differences between the treatment of...