The latent demand for bank debt: Characterizing "discouraged borrowers"

Small Business Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 399-418

  Freel, Mark ^a   Carter, Sara ^b   Tagg, Stephen ^b   Mason, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banks; Discouragement; Funding gap; Loan denial; Loan finance; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858075116     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9283-6     Document Type: Article

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