Collateral, bank monitoring and firm performance: the case of newly established wine farmers

Julien Cadot

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2013, vol. 57, issue 3

Abstract: The present study aims to learn how collateral affects firm performance in the case of newly established wine producers. The issue is to identify the effects of collateral in situations of asymmetric information when the bank is the main financial partner of the entrepreneurs involved. On the one hand, the use of collateral may reduce the risk of overinvestment by entrepreneurs and thereby reduce the risk of repayment default. On the other hand, collateral may induce bad performance linked to a reduced monitoring of the investments by the bank. We herein test both hypotheses in two different cases: when the bank monitors the investments and when the bank does not.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.245949

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