Access to credit and its determinants: A comparison of survey-based measures

Christa Hainz and Tatjana Nabokin

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Measuring access to finance represents an important challenge in empirical studies. Due to data limitations, perception-based indicators or the usage of finance are often used as approximations of access to finance. However, these approximations disregard firm-specific differences in the demand for finance. We derive a direct measure of access to credit from firm-level survey data and explicitly model credit demand. We study the determinants of access to credit and disentangle, in contrast to other measures, their effects on demand for and access to credit. We find that the usage of credit is not a sufficient approximation, while perception-based indicators are surprisingly precise.

Date: 2019
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Published in Economics of Transition 4 27(2019): pp. 1031-1067

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