This research examines the impact of Hofstede's six cultural dimensions on 122 countries'
green economy and finds strong evidence that individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and …

Relationship lending is one of the most important lending technologies adopted by banks
and their borrowers. The adoption of relationship lending is mainly related to small business …

This paper examines whether aid flows targeted to the financial sector can improve a
recipient country's financial inclusion by using data on 21 developing countries identified as …

The development of digital finance reshapes the competition pattern of banking. This paper
uses a sample of 287 cities in China over the 2011–2019 period to analyze the effect of …

This paper investigates the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on firms' performance and
financial vulnerability. Exploiting longitudinal firm-level data from the World Bank's …

By providing liquidity Hausbanks can support business clients to overcome the social
shutdown and hence cushion the economic impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Germany's …

A major challenge to SME growth has been access to credit meanwhile literature exploring
the effects of lending methodologies on credit access has paid little attention to how credit …

Purpose This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on small-and
medium-sized enterprises'(SMEs) access to credit. Starting with the idea that SMEs' strategy …

Recent trends in developed economies exhibit strong interdependencies between the
stability of the financial sector and macroeconomic variables. The financial sector has …

Taking into account the differences in the capabilities of FinTech to process standardized
and non-standardized information within the credit market, this study introduces a novel …