... credit to the private sector and 23.18% using the financial development index. Below this threshold, finance negatively impacts private investment, while surpassing this threshold leads to positive growth in private investment. These findings indicate an issue of “too little” finance in the finance...

...Nugroho Saputro; Putra Pamungkas; Irwan Trinugroho; Yoshia Christian Mahulette; Bruno Sergio Sergi; Goh Lim Thye Purpose This paper investigated whether a bank’s popularity and depositors' fear of Google search volume could affect bank deposits and credit. Design/methodology/approach...

... the most in default, while retailers recover the least. Recovery rates (RRs) have received a substantial amount of research attention in the credit risk literature (Altman and Kishore, 1996 ; Cantor and Varma, 2005 ; Acharya et al., 2007 ; Jankowitsch et al., 2014 , etc...

...Vinod Venkiteshwaran Purpose – Asset sales can have opposing effects on firm credit quality. On the one hand asset sales could signal increased credit risk resulting from distress or on the other hand they could improve internal liquidity and hence credit quality. Therefore the impact potential...

...Morris Knapp; Alan Gart Purpose – This paper aims to examine the post-merger changes in the credit risk profile of merging bank holding companies and tests whether there is an increase in credit risk after a merger due to changes in the mix of loans in the portfolio. Design/methodology...

...Astrid K. Chludek Purpose In contrast to common literature that suggests that trade credit is an extremely expensive source of financing with annual interest rates exceeding 40 percent, this paper seeks to argue that the average interest rate of trade credit does not exceed the cost of alternative...

..., in fact, be a profitable market niche for innovative banking services. The 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC, launched a global movement to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families with credit for self‐employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005. Much...

...Mark C. Freeman; Paul R. Cox; Brian Wright Purpose This paper aims to explore the possible use of credit derivatives by corporate treasurers. Corporations have, in recent years, grown comfortable with the idea of using traditional derivative products to hedge their exposure to, for example...