Does gender matter for firms' access to credit? Evidence from international data

David Aristei and Manuela Gallo

Finance Research Letters, 2016, vol. 18, issue C, 67-75

Abstract: This paper investigates the existence of gender differences in firms’ access to finance. Based on firm-level data for 28 transitional European countries, we show how estimated gender gaps in credit demand and financial constraints significantly depend on the way in which female participation in ownership and management is measured. Furthermore, we find that differences in credit denial probability are not explained by the observed firm characteristics considered, but are due instead to unexplained factors, thus providing support to the hypothesis of gender-based discrimination in access to credit against women-led businesses.

Keywords: Credit constraints; Loan demand; Gender discrimination; Decomposition methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 G21 J16 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2016.04.002

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