scholarly journals Parsimonious Lenders: Bank Concentration and Credit Availability to Small Businesses

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjin Park
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Credit Availability ◽  
Bank Concentration

scholarly journals Remittances, Bank Concentration and Credit Availability in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-88
Author(s):  
Folorunsho M. Ajide
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Credit Availability ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Money Transfers ◽  
Bound Test ◽  
Bank Concentration

The concentration of the Nigerian financial sector has long been recognised to be an important factor affecting the financial stability and welfare at an individual level in the economy. While various studies have been conducted to examine the sensitivity of this phenomenon to macro economy, little has been done to examine the effect of concentration on credit availability in Nigeria. In addition, no study has investigated the role of remittances on the relationship between bank concentration and availability of credit. Taking motivation from the Nigerian banking consolidation exercise, this article examined the effect of remittances and bank concentration on availability of credit in Nigeria. The author employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test approach for co-integration on Nigerian data for the period of 1986–2015. The results revealed that bank concentration constrains the development of financial sector in Nigeria and remittances improve the level of financial development (credit availability) in the long run but inhibit the availability of credit in the short run. The negative relationship occurs in the short run because of the regulatory framework governing international money transfers in Nigeria, which simply inhibits competition. In the long run, recipients who have received remittances from informal settings would need financial products and services in which those remittances would be banked and further improve the financial sector. It was concluded that since Nigerian financial sector remained underdeveloped, the sector could be driven by encouraging inflow of remittances into the country. Our findings also persist after batteries of robustness check.

scholarly journals Patterns of Debt Use in Small Businesses: A Non-Parametric Analysis

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atreya Chakraborty ◽  
Rajiv Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Credit Availability ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Model Based Analysis ◽  
Non Parametric

This paper uses non-parametric techniques to examine patterns of debt use by small firms and how such patterns differ across firm categories. The methodological goal is to use the richness of the firm level data and allow convincing presentations with minimum of assumptions. The procedures used provide easily comprehendible graphical descriptions of the data. The procedures augment what can be discerned from descriptive statistics by accounting for differential weights and allowing for clustering that is a native feature of cross-sectional data. We also investigate how firms could benefit if credit availability improves. Though a model-based analysis would be required to provide a detailed analysis, our analysis suggests that greater credit availability will benefit all firms. Firms with low levels of equity will be better off as their credit constraints will be less binding, while firms with high levels of equity will benefit from acquiring more debt.  

Small Industry, Gimmicks and Moscow Statistics, or How the Small Russian Enterprise Came into the World (Russian Physiological Sketch, 1830-1840)

2009 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Yu. Golubitsky
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Russian Enterprise ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Xix Century

The article considers business practices of Moscow small industry in the XIX century, basing upon physiological sketches of N. Polevoy and I. Kokorev, statistical data and the classification of professions are also presented. The author claims that the heroes of the analyzed sketches are the forefathers of Moscow small businesses and shows what a deep similarity their occupations and a way of life bear to the present-day routine existence of small enterprises.

The effect of credit guarantee on creating employment and keeping employees of small businesses

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-58
Author(s):  
Sung-ho Kang ◽  
Chang-Kyun Chae ◽  
오승현 ◽  
문외솔 ◽  
Chong Ook Rhee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
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