Information Asymmetries and the Provision of Finance to Small Firms

Abstract

Dr M. R. Binks and G.V. Reed are with the department of economics, nottingham university, England, and C.T. Ennew with the Department of industrial economics of the same university. Ascertaining the risk associated with the provision of external finance to small firms involves the collection of considerable amounts of external fiance to small firms involves the collection of considrable amounts of inforation. The cost incurred in this process are sufficient to cause both an equity and a debt gap. Mainstream econmic therorists are divided as to whetehr the inforatmion asymmetries concerened cause an under or an over-supply of credit. This paper outlines the main elements of the eimpact of asymmetries concrened cause an under of over supply of credit.idicates the tendency of a cpaital as opposed to an incoming-generting approach to loan evaluation to emerge as a natural default process by United Kingdom banks. Although identifying the anture of asymmetries in practice is very difficult. it is important to make attempts to do so in order to guide and monitor progress in theri removal .the authors explain how a measure of demand, supply and attainment quality, with respect.The result illustrate tehrrelative experience of firms by sector, size and growth rate and reveal the possiblity tha those firms most in need of a prospectus based approach may be least well placed to receive it.

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