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Bank Financing for SMEs – Lessons from the Literature

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  • Thorsten Beck

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This paper surveys the recent literature on the relationship between SMEs, financial deepening and economic development. While a large SME sector is not associated with faster economic growth or poverty alleviation, financial deepening can have a pro-growth and pro-poor impact by alleviating SMEs’ financing constraints, enabling firm entry and entrepreneurship, and better resource allocation. It is important to differentiate between different segments of the SME population, most critically between subsistence micro entrepreneurs and transformational entrepreneurs. This paper also discusses the importance of market structure, competition and regulations for SMEs and their access to finance over the business cycle and during crises.

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  • Thorsten Beck, 2013. "Bank Financing for SMEs – Lessons from the Literature," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 225(1), pages 23-38, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:225:y:2013:i:1:p:r23-r38
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    1. Ross Levine & Chen Lin & Qilin Peng & Wensi Xie, 2020. "Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending," Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 33(12), pages 5750-5783.
    2. Luca Fare & Marcus Dejardin & Eric Toulemonde, 2023. "Bankruptcy recovery rate and small businesses' innovation," DeFiPP Working Papers 2302, University of Namur, Development Finance and Public Policies.
    3. Kobil Ruziev & Don Webber, 2017. "SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness matter?," Working Papers 20171701, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol.
    4. Kobil Ruziev, 2017. "Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 398-398, November.
    5. Ioana-Carmen BOZINTAN (COSMA-GULER), 2022. "SMEs FINANCING – AN OVERVIEW OF DIRECT FINANCING ON CAPITAL MARKET VS. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 2(2), pages 92-102, December.
    6. Miguel Sanchez-Martinez & Philip Davis, 2014. "A review of the economic theories of poverty," National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Discussion Papers 435, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
    7. Huang, Jing & Yang, Wensheng & Tu, Yiliu, 2020. "Financing mode decision in a supply chain with financial constraint," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 220(C).
    8. Nirosha Hewa Wellalage & Stuart Locke & Helen Samujh, 2019. "Corruption, Gender and Credit Constraints: Evidence from South Asian SMEs," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 159(1), pages 267-280, September.
    9. Mirgul Nizaeva & Ali Coskun, 2019. "Investigating the Relationship Between Financial Constraint and Growth of SMEs in South Eastern Europe," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(3), pages 21582440198, September.

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    Keywords

    SME lending; financial deepening; competition; crisis;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance

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