Arbeitspapier

Default Rates in the Loan Market for SMEs: Evidence from Slovakia

The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit models showthat liquidity and profitability factors are important determinants of SME defaults.Moreover, we find that indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has important incentive effects.In sum, default rates and factors converged to values found in developed financialmarkets.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 72

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Bankruptcy; Liquidation
Thema
SMEs
banking
loan default
incentives
asymmetric information
probit
financial crisis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fidrmuc, Jarko
Hainz, Christa
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fidrmuc, Jarko
  • Hainz, Christa
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2009

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