In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political systems. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as a majority of the people generally suffers from high corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that...

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study how different entry modes affect the interest rate for loans in a model in which domestic banks possess private information about their incumbent clients but foreign banks have...

Banks entering an emerging market face a lot of uncertainty about the risks involved in lending. We use a unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 short-term loans made to SMEs in Slovakia between January 2000 and June 2005. Of the loans granted, on average 6.0 per cent of the firms defaulted....

Im Rahmen der monatlichen Unternehmensbefragungen des ifo Instituts wurden die Firmen im Juni zusätzlich um Auskunft gebeten, mit welchen Hausbanken sie zusammenarbeiten. Anhand der so gewonnenen Informationen wurde untersucht, ob es bezüglich der momentanen Kreditfinanzierungsmöglichkeiten...

Daten des ifo Kreditklimas, das zweimal jährlich im Rahmen des ifo Konjunkturtests erstellt wird, zeigen, dass deutsche KMUs in Gebieten nahe der österreichischen Grenze über einen besseren Zugang zu Krediten verfügen als andere Unternehmen. Ohne grenzüberschreitende Kredite wäre die Nähe...

Should the European Union grant state aid through an institution like the European Investment bank? This paper evaluates the efficiency of different measures for grant-ing state aid. We use a theoretical model with firms that differ in their creditworthiness and compare different types of...