Is Small Beautiful? Financial Structure, Size and Access to Finance

Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between financial structure and firms’ access to financial services. Specifically, it considers the importance of three different types of financial institutions: low-end financial institutions, specialized lenders, and banks. Two...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Singer, Dorothe
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16218