Default rates in the loan market for SMEs: Evidence from Slovakia

Economic Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-147

  Fidrmuc, Jarko ^a,b,c   Hainz, Christa ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e WDI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Banking; Financial crisis; Incentives; Loan default; Probit; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949917184     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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