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Bad loan build-up in India: A reflection of soft budget constraints

Modern Finance
This paper analyses the non-performing assets (NPA) crisis in the Indian banking system from the perspective of soft budget constraints. Using a panel dataset of 105 publicly listed firms, it explores the relationship between NPAs and bank lending ...
Dilawar Ahmad Bhat, Udayan Chanda, Anil K. Bhat   +2 more
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Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States

Journal of Consumer Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract A deficiency in financial knowledge often precipitates costly financial choices, affecting consumers' behavior and decision‐making. We delve into how financial acumen influences borrower discouragement by utilizing data from the U.S. Federal Reserve's Survey of Household Economics and Decision‐Making (2017–2022). Discouraged borrower describes
Anoosheh Rostamkalaei, Allan Riding, George Saridakis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of population ageing on credit rationing in rural China

Cogent Economics & Finance
Based on the trend of ageing in rural populations, this study utilized the 2019 China Household Finance Survey data to theoretically and empirically analyze the rationing behavior of rural formal financial institutions in credit supply and demand.
Pengfei Liu
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The relationship between Bank Credits and Socioeconomic Indicators in Agricultural Sector: A Case Study of the Fars Province [PDF]

پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2010
Bank credit is an important source for the finance in agricultural sector. Agricultural credit is expected to play a critical role in agricultural development. Since the banking system supplies lower interest loans, there is a higher demand for financing
Abdulhamid khosravi
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The financial information in the credit market for micro and small businesses, in underdeveloped regions

Faedpyme International Review, 2012
This research analyzed the role that financial information plays in the access to external financial resources for micro and small manufacturing businesses (MiSBs) in Tabasco, Mexico.
Juan José Chable Sangeado
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SMEs and Climate Finance: A Hybrid Review

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing importance of sustainability and environmental practices, along with a recent surge in related research, motivated this review of environmental management and climate finance within the SME sector. Starting with an initial sample of 2063 articles, we refined the dataset, resulting in a final sample of 124 key publications.
Ashraf Khan, Anastasia Giakoumelou, Giorgio Stefano Bertinetti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Credit rationing during credit supply shock: Insights from loan level data

International Review of Economics & Finance
This paper examines bank credit allocation under an exogenous shock to credit supply within a stable financial system. The paper utilizes proprietary loan-level data collected from all Israeli commercial banks to examine how massive drawdowns on ...
Noam Michelson
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

House Prices and Bank Lending to SMEs: Evidence From UK Local Authorities

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using panel data for 304 local authorities in the UK from 2014 to 2021, we empirically examine three issues: (a) how booms in house prices affect bank lending to small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs); (b) whether these effects differ when SMEs hold larger amounts of real estate and buildings and (c) whether a rise in house prices can cause
Jalal Siddiki, Zilong Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Pessimism, Optimism and Credit Rationing [PDF]

In their celebrated contribution on credit rationing, Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) showed that the expected return to the borrower on a loan is increasing in the risk of the project it funds. In this paper, I show that their results do not necessarily carry
Jean-Louis Arcand
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