 Access to Credit as a Growth ConstraintMatjaž Volk and Polona Trefalt Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2014, vol. 1, issue 1, 29-39 Abstract: From a sample of 75,854 Slovenian firms in the period 1995-2011, we examine the effects of a firm's access to bank credit on its growth. The results suggest that as the external financing constraint relaxes and firm gets access to credit, the reliance on internal funds to finance growth decreases. By exploring the role of available collateral in gaining access to bank credit, we find that collateral only helps larger firms to obtain credit more easily. On the other hand, collateral does not reduce micro firms' dependence on internal funds to finance growth, which suggests that even if they have collateral, banks are still unprepared to finance them, possibly due to the level of risk. It could also be that in approving credit to micro firms, other factors such as liquidity or cash flow are more highly considered by banks than the value of collateral. Keywords: Financial constraints; Access to credit; Firm growth; Collateral; Dynamic panel (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sgm:jbfeuw:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:29-39 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Banking and Financial Economics from University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management Contact information at EDIRC. |
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