Logo
Munich Personal RePEc Archive

The effects of mutual guarantee consortia on the quality of bank lending

Columba, Francesco and Gambacorta, Leonardo and Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio (2009): The effects of mutual guarantee consortia on the quality of bank lending. Published in: Revue Bancaire et Financiere , Vol. 4, (2009): pp. 226-232.

[thumbnail of MPRA_paper_17052.pdf]
Preview
PDF
MPRA_paper_17052.pdf

Download (205kB) | Preview

Abstract

In this paper we investigate whether or not mutual guarantee consortia (MGC), a financial institution well developed in Italy, alleviate the difficulties that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face when they ask for a bank loan. We find that the probability of a small firm affiliated to a MGC of going into default is lower than that of firms not affiliated to such a consortium. These results indicate that MGCs improve the ability of banks to screen and monitor small firms.

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact us: mpra@ub.uni-muenchen.de

This repository has been built using EPrints software.

MPRA is a RePEc service hosted by Logo of the University Library LMU Munich.