Credit and collateral

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    • Sena, Vania

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Credit and collateral

Vania Sena

(Routledge international studies in money and banking, 44)

Routledge, 2008

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [126]-138) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Collateral - generally defined as an asset used to provide security for a lender's loan - is an important feature of credit contracts and all the available evidence suggests that its use is getting more pervasive. This informative book builds upon recent research into this topic. Sena analyses three case-studies that revolve around the impact that financial constraints have on economic outcomes. In the first case-study, the relationship between firms' technical efficiency and increasing financial pressure is explored. The author then goes on to show, in the second case study, that under specific circumstances, increasing financial pressure and increasing product market competition can jointly have a positive impact on firms' technical efficiency, while not being true for all types of firms. In the third case, she analyses the impact that finance constraints have on women's start-ups. Unique and revealing, this is the first book to deal so extensively with the topic of collateral, and as such, is a valuable reference to postgraduates and professionals in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary and business economics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Credit Constraints and Economic Outcomes: A Short Survey 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Asymmetric Information in the Credit Market and its Impact on the Firm's Demand for Investment: A Brief Survey 2.3 Self-Employment Choice, Gender and Financial Constraints 2.4 Conclusions 3. Technical Efficiency and Finance Constraints: An Empirical Analysis for the Italian Manufacturing, 1989-1994 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Technical Efficiency and Finance Constraints: A Partial Equilibrium Approach 3.3 The Empirical Analysis 3.4 The Econometric Results 3.5 Concluding Remarks 4. Product Market Competition, Financial Pressure and Producers' Cooperatives 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The General Framework 4.3 The Empirical Analysis 4.4 Concluding Remarks 5. Self-Employment and Gender: How Important are Financial Constraints? 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Model 5.3 The Household Survey of Entrepreneurship (HSE) 2003 5.4 The Results 5.5 Concluding Remarks 6. Conclusions

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  • NCID
    BA84178825
  • ISBN
    • 9780415341172
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 143 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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