What's in a relationship? The case of commercial lending

Business Horizons

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Udell, Gregory F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking industry; Commercial lending; Lending technologies; Relationship lending; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849186151     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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