Moro, Andrea; Fink, Matthias - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 3, pp. 927-936
SMEs. Trust literature suggests that trust reduces agency costs. Thus, trust is expected to be positively related to the … amount of short-term credit granted and negatively related to SMEs’ risk of being credit constrained. Results from six banks … characterised by a German culture and three banks characterised by an Italian culture suggest that this is indeed the case: SMEs …