Lending to small businesses: The role of loan maturity in addressing information problems

Small Business Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 361-383

  Ortiz Molina, Hernán ^a   Penas, María Fabiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collateral; Loan maturity; Relationship lending; Small businesses

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849094426     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9053-2     Document Type: Article

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