How Bank Competition Affects Firms' Access to Finance
Using multi-year, firm-level surveys for 53 countries, this paper explores the impact of bank competition on firms’ access to finance. We find that low competition, as measured by high values on the Lerner index or Boone indicator, diminishes firms’ access to finance. In addition, the impact of comp...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27683 |