Publication detail

Financial Crisis and Financing Constraints of SMEs in Visegrad Countries

KORÁB, P. POMĚNKOVÁ, J.

Original Title

Financial Crisis and Financing Constraints of SMEs in Visegrad Countries

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper investigates the access of small and medium-sized enterprises to external financing during the recent financial crisis via non-parametric density estimation. The kernel density estimation is applied on a firm-level measure of financing constraints and evaluates its distribution on a balanced panel of SMEs. For application and cross-country comparison we use panel data on Limited Liability enterprises in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Our results reveal asymmetric impact of the financial crisis on the ability of SMEs to secure external financing. We identify that there is no sizeable difference in access to credit of SMEs in Hungary and Poland before and during the crisis. In Slovakia and the Czech Republic our results suggest that firms were more constrained during the crisis and their financing constraints did not largely improve after the end of financial crisis. We argue that economic recession was the driving factor of financing constraints in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Keywords

financing constraints, KZ index, credit crunch, financial accelerator, non-parametric estimation, kernel density

Authors

KORÁB, P.; POMĚNKOVÁ, J.

RIV year

2014

Released

17. 11. 2014

ISBN

0013-3035

Periodical

Journal of Economics

Year of study

62

Number

9

State

Slovak Republic

Pages from

887

Pages to

902

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT110369,
  author="Petr {Koráb} and Jitka {Poměnková}",
  title="Financial Crisis and Financing Constraints of SMEs in Visegrad Countries",
  journal="Journal of Economics",
  year="2014",
  volume="62",
  number="9",
  pages="887--902",
  issn="0013-3035"
}