Is relationship lending still a mixed blessing? A review of advantages and disadvantages for lenders and borrowers

A Duqi, A Tomaselli, G Torluccio - Contemporary Topics in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Relationship lending is one of the most important lending technologies adopted by banks
and their borrowers. The adoption of relationship lending is mainly related to small business …

An empirical study on green environmental system certification affects financing cost of high energy consumption enterprises-taking metallurgical enterprises as an …

W Wu, S An, CH Wu, SB Tsai, K Yang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
A vast body of literature shows that environmental management system certification,
especially ISO 14001 certification, has the potential to relieve environmental stress and …

Bank competition, concentration and EU SME cost of debt

X Wang, L Han, X Huang - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the plentiful debate on the effects of bank competition on SME access to finance and
growth, only few studies have explored the impacts on SME cost of debt. This study …

Determinants of SME finance: evidence from three central European countries

A Rahman, MT Rahman, J Belas - Review of economic perspectives, 2017 - sciendo.com
This paper explores the determinants of access to finance for small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) in the context of three Central European countries: Czech Republic, Slovak …

Comparative advantages of regional versus national banks in alleviating SME's financial constraints

C Meslier, A Sauviat, D Yuan - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides new evidence on the impact of local banking market structure on SME's
access to credit and emphasize the comparative advantages of regional versus national …

Credit information sharing and cost of debt: Evidence from the introduction of credit bureaus in developing countries

S Fosu, H Agyei‐Boapeah, N Ciftci - Financial Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the effect of credit information sharing on cost of debt, with particular focus on
the introduction of credit bureaus in developing countries. Using a large dataset of firms from …

SMEs' near-death experiences. Do local banks extend a helping hand?

M Iwanicz-Drozdowska, K Jackowicz… - Emerging Markets …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate how the presence of local banks affects the prospects of troubled small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using a new dataset covering the years 2006–2015, we …

The imprint effect of initial institutional environments and bank financing in family businesses

C Cheng, K Qiu, Y Yang - Emerging Markets Review, 2024 - Elsevier
The initial imprint embedded in family business origin provides us with favorable support for
identifying how past institutional environments and then current governance characteristics …

[PDF][PDF] The Relationship Between Bank Concentration and Interest Rates

T Kaličanin, Z Grubišić, S Kamenković - Journal of Central Banking …, 2023 - sciendo.com
The aim of this paper was to analyse the relationship between market concentration and
market interest rate. Taking into thought the relationship between the level of concentration …

De‐branching, too‐much‐branching, and cost of debt of SMEs in Slovakia

O Rafaj, M Siranova - European Financial Management, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate nonlinear effects of bank branch saturation on SMEs' cost of debt at regional
level in Slovakia over the period 2013–2019. We adopt the two‐step approach by first …