Maria Minniti
UK credit and discouragement during the GFC
Minniti, Maria; Cowling, Marc; Liu, Weixi; Minniti, Mary; Zhang, Ning
Authors
Marc Cowling
Weixi Liu
Mary Minniti
Helen Zhang Helen.Zhang@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting
Abstract
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The availability of credit to entrepreneurs with good investment opportunities is an important facilitator of economic growth. Under normal economic conditions, most entrepreneurs who requested loans receive them. In a global financial crisis, popular opinion is that banks are severely restricting lending to smaller businesses. This assumes that low levels of investment are caused by supply-side restrictions in the credit market. Little is said about potential changes in the demand for credit and how it is influenced by entrepreneurs’ perceptions about supply-side restrictions. One particularly interesting, and under-researched, group of small businesses is that who have potentially good investment opportunities, but are discouraged from applying for external funding as they fear rejection. In this study, we question whether these entrepreneurs were correct in their assumptions. We find that levels of discouragement are quite low in general at 2.7% of the total smaller business population. Further analysis implies that 55.6% of discouraged borrowers would have got loans had they applied.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 13, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 6, 2016 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Apr 16, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | May 4, 2018 |
Journal | Small Business Economics |
Print ISSN | 0921-898X |
Electronic ISSN | 1573-0913 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1049-1074 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9745-6 |
Keywords | small business finance, credit rationing, credit discouragement, bank lending |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/905123 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9745-6 |
Additional Information | Additional Information : This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Small Business Economics. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9745-6 |
Contract Date | Apr 16, 2018 |
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