the financial costs and loan benefits associated with SME relationship banking, extending the scope of existing literature … SMEs to secure more bank credit and longer-term loans, it also results in higher interest rates, increased guarantee …'s credit market and its consequences. …

Based on automated credit lines to more than two million vendors trading on Alibaba’s online retail platform, we show … how the take-up of FinTech credit varies with the entrepreneur’s bank distance. Proximity to the branches of the five … largest stateowned banks correlates positively with the take-up of FinTech credit and suggests more severe credit frictions …

To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using … firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair access to credit …. Specifically, firms are more credit-constrained in election years and pre-election years as elections exacerbate political …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomplete credit markets. Then, we exploit firm-level data for France, Germany … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We …

2015, we test whether young businesses are more likely to face credit rejections from lenders than their older peers. Our … the issue of sample selection bias potentially affecting our data. Additional tests also reveal that credit constraints … viability of credit and, thus, ensure the growth of young businesses in the Euro area. …

We examine the ináuence of countries lending infrastructure on credit rationing for European SMEs (small and medium … greater levels of trust are less likely to be credit rationed. Interestingly, the lending infrastructure provides greater …

designed to support credit-constrained SMEs and interact their loan portfolio with the number of nearby commercial bank offices … larger number of local bank offices increases the local credit supply, and decreases the credit constraints of nearby SMEs. …

decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial … health following the 2008 crisis is used as an exogenous determinant of firms' access to credit. Findings, relative to the … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less …

decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks’ financial … health following the 2008 crisis is used as an exogenous determinant of firms' access to credit. Findings, relative to the … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less …