Small Business Lending and Bank Consolidation: Is There Cause for Concern?
- 1 March 1996
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Small banks are a major source of credit for small businesses. As banking consolidation continues, will a resulting decline in the presence of small banks adversely affect the availability of that credit?Keywords
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