Banks' risk assessment of Swedish SMEs

Venture Capital

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-194

  Bruns, Volker ^a   Fletcher, Margaret ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank lending; Bank loans; Commercial lending; Conjoint experiment; Credit decision process; Credit evaluation process; Credit risk; Credit risk assessment; Decision making; Risk management; Risk managing; SMEs; Swedish banking system; Swedish SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549123302     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060801946089     Document Type: Article

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