The importance of banking relationship for SME financing

Armando Silva () and Silvia Maria Graça Braga ()
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Silvia Maria Graça Braga: Instituto Politécnico do Porto

Brazilian Review of Finance, 2014, vol. 12, issue 3, 291-397

Abstract: Taking, as starting point, a sample of small and medium-sized (SME) Portuguese companies customers of credit of a given bank branch, we examine empirically the role of both banking relationships and the economic and financial situation of the firms in the determination of the funding conditions obtained. Based on multiple regression analysis, it was found that, for the explanatory model of the level of the risk premium, the variables that showed significance for such explanation were the firm reputation, the amount of credit granted and also the overall liquidity of the customer. Regarding the explanatory model of the amount of credit granted, the variable duration has a significant impact, indicating that relationships are valuable in such issue. In both models, the variables that have shown to have a greater impact on the amount and price of the granted credit available were variables related to the economic and financial performance of the firms

Keywords: Financing; Banking; Relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 L2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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