Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence Across Countries and Bank Ownership Types

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 35-54

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Demirgüç Kunt, Asli ^b   Pería, María Soledad Martínez ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank financing; Business environment; Financing constraints; Lending techniques; Small and medium size enterprises; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952193791     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10693-010-0085-4     Document Type: Article

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