Collateral, relationship lending and family firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-259

  Steijvers, Tensie ^a   Voordeckers, Wim ^a   Vanhoof, Koen ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collateral; Decision tree analysis; Private family firms; Relationship lending; SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952010479     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9124-z     Document Type: Article

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