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

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 72

Classification and Topics

• Classification: 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
• Subject: SMEs ; banking ; loan default ; incentives ; asymmetric information ; probit ; financial crisis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fidrmuc, Jarko ; Hainz, Christa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73730
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET