Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222673 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper Series No. 906
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper tests whether local financial development matters for SMEs' growth performance. We develop a theoretical model framework based on banks' and firms' profit-maximizing behavior that critically hinges upon credit default risk ratio. We argue that an expansion of branch network would increase competition among banks to find good borrowers, which will likely to reduce credit default risk of banks. Our empirical analysis based on the theoretical framework confirms that decreasing credit default risk would decrease interest rates and therefore increases the demand for loans. Thus, bank branch growth has positive and significant impact on firms output growth and productivity. For the empirical analysis, we have used 3 groups of data of Bangladesh including i. firm level data; ii. financial development data; and iii. subdistrict level geographical data. The main policy implication of this paper is that local financial development, particularly bank branch network expansion at subdistrict level could ease access to finance and thereby improve performances of SMEs in developing countries.
Subjects: 
small and medium enterprise (SME)
local financial development
bank branch network
firm performance
Bangladesh
JEL: 
O16
L25
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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