Distant lending for regional small businesses using public credit guarantee schemes: Evidence from Japan

Daisuke Tsuruta

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023, vol. 80, issue C, 60-76

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the extent to which banks use public credit guaranteed loans for distant small business borrowers. Existing studies argue that when banks offer loans for these borrowers, the information asymmetry between them is often severe. These studies then empirically demonstrate how banks can mitigate this problem. We focus instead on the role of Japan’s public credit guarantee scheme in mitigating these same information problems, an approach unaddressed in the literature. If banks offer credit guaranteed loans, they suffer few losses from borrower default because the public credit guarantee corporations (not the small business borrowers) make payments to the banks. Therefore, banks can offer loans to informationally opaque and distant borrowers. To conduct the econometric analysis, we use semiannual bank-region-level data from Japan, which allows us to control for several unobserved fixed effects. The results reveal that credit guarantee loan size is larger and the default rate higher when banks offer credit guaranteed loans to distant borrowers. These findings suggest that banks successfully mitigate the losses of distant lending using the public credit guarantee scheme, thereby providing a valuable contribution to the small business finance literature.

Keywords: Distant lending; Public credit guarantees; Small businesses; Bank loans; Bank competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2023.07.017

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