Enterprise Size, Financing Patterns, and Credit Constraints in Brazil investigates the importance of firm size with respect to accessing credit. The principal findings are that size strongly affects access to credit compared to firm performance, and other factors, such as management education, location or the industrial sector to which the firm belongs. Additional findings are that the impact of size on access to credit is greater for longer term loans and that public financial institutions are more likely to lend to large firms. Finally, financial access constraints may have a less significant differential impact across firms of different sizes than other constraints, though cost of finance as a constraint is very important.
- ISBN10 661014141X
- ISBN13 9786610141418
- Publish Date 31 March 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 March 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint World Bank Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 72
- Language English