The aim of this study was to ascertain what can be done by the informal finance sector to
close the credit gap in order to improve access to finance by SMEs. SMEs are the backbone …

This paper studies the endogenous relationships among financial development, energy
consumption, and economic growth in China by applying a GMM panel VAR approach with …

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the fundamental tool for economic
growth, nevertheless, they face continuous financing challenges. SMEs are a major source …

Using data from 286 Chinese cities over the period 2001–2006, this paper investigates the
relationship between financial development and economic growth at the city level in China …

The fast growth of Chinese private sector firms is taken as evidence that informal finance can
facilitate firm growth better than formal banks in developing countries. We examine firm …

Banking competition may enhance or hinder the financing of small and medium-sized
enterprises. Using a survey on the financing of such enterprises in China, combined with …

Using a panel of 79,841 Chinese firms over the period 2000–2007, we examine the extent to
which liquidity constraints affect firms' assets growth. We find that state owned enterprises …

This book provides a compendium to the empirical work investigating the hypotheses
generated by recent banking theory. Such a compendium is overdue. Since the publication …

This study investigates small businesses' financing decisions. Drawing upon asymmetric
information theory, institutional theory and relevant literature on cognitive financial …

This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, financial innovation,
and stock market development of Bangladesh for the period 1980–2016. To investigate long …