Relationship lending and SME financing in the continental European bank-based system

Small Business Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 465-482

  Hernández Cánovas, Ginés ^a   Martínez Solano, Pedro ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Commitment; Competition; Cost of debt; Guarantees; Loan availability; Relationship lending; SME; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952010053     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9129-7     Document Type: Article

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