Purpose This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on small- and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to credit. Starting with idea that SMEs' strategy-making process, structures behaviour can favour credit access, authors also explore moderating role bank lending technologies in shaping this relationship. Design/methodology/approach study relies a unique survey A...

Institutions that rely on joint liability to facilitate lending to the poor have a long history and are now a common feature of many developing countries. Economists have proposed several theories of joint-liability lending that stress various aspects of its informational and enforcement advantages over other forms of lending. This paper analyzes how joint-liability lending promotes screening, ...

In this paper we investigate whether macroeconomic uncertainty could distort banks’ allocation of loanable funds. To provide a road– map for our empirical investigation, we present a simple framework which demonstrates that lower uncertainty about the return from lending should lead to a more unequal distribution of lending across banks as managers take advantage of more precise knowledge of di...

The credit platform of P2P network is a new type of lending model which based on Internet technology. It is the inevitable product in the rapid development of science, technology and social economy. It makes the current credit model more diversity and comprehensive, which plays a pivotal role in China's economic development. This paper introduces the mode and characteristics of P2P network lend...

I use geographic variation in bank lending to study how bank real estate losses impacted the supply of credit and employment during the Great Recession. Banks exposed to distressed housing markets cut mortgage and small business lending relative to other banks in the same county. This lending contraction had real effects, as counties whose banks were exposed to adverse shocks in other markets s...