Does Foreign Bank Penetration Reduce Access to Credit in Developing Countries? Evidence from Asking Borrowers

Existing evidence on the effect of foreign bank penetration on lending to small and medium-size enterprises is ambiguous. Case studies of developing countries show that foreign banks lend less to such firms than domestic banks do. But cross-country...

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Main Authors: Clarke, George R.G., Cull, Robert, Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
GDP
M2
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1631787/foreign-bank-penetration-reduce-access-credit-developing-countries-evidence-asking-borrowers
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19437