Impact of digital finance on energy efficiency: Empirical findings from China

Z Fu, Y Zhou, W Li, K Zhong - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The world is facing the problem of resource scarcity and environmental degradation.
Improving energy efficiency is an effective way to reduce energy consumption and reduce …

Is relationship lending still a mixed blessing? A review of advantages and disadvantages for lenders and borrowers

A Duqi, A Tomaselli, G Torluccio - Contemporary Topics in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Relationship lending is one of the most important lending technologies adopted by banks
and their borrowers. The adoption of relationship lending is mainly related to small business …

From the wisdom of crowds to my own judgment in microfinance through online peer-to-peer lending platforms

H Yum, B Lee, M Chae - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Information asymmetry is one of the fundamental problems that online peer-to-peer (P2P)
lending platforms face. This problem becomes more acute when platforms are used for …

Emergence of financial intermediaries in electronic markets: The case of online P2P lending

SC Berger, F Gleisner - BuR Business Research Journal, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyze the role of intermediaries in electronic markets using detailed data of more than
14,000 originated loans on an electronic P2P (peer-to-peer) lending platform. In such an …

Loan managers' trust and credit access for SMEs

A Moro, M Fink - Journal of banking & finance, 2013 - Elsevier
Research on relationship lending pays only marginal attention to the role of loan managers'
trust in the managers of SMEs. Trust literature suggests that trust reduces agency costs …

Geographic proximity, information flows and corporate innovation: Evidence from the high-speed rail construction in China

X Zhang, W Wu, Z Zhou, L Yuan - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Using the construction of high-speed rail as a source of exogenous variation in proximity,
this study investigates how geographic proximity affects corporate innovation. The …

Group membership, relationship banking and loan default risk: The case of online social lending

CR Everett - Banking and Finance Review, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper uses a new data source, online social lending (aka peer-to-peer lending), to help
answer the question of what impact borrower-lender information asymmetries have on …

Can digital finance contribute to the promotion of financial sustainability? A financial efficiency perspective

D Luo, M Luo, J Lv - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The research first summarizes the theoretical mechanism of digital finance to improve
financial efficiency and sustainability; then, it proposes three hypotheses. After that, a DEA …

Benefits of relationship banking: Evidence from consumer credit markets

S Agarwal, S Chomsisengphet, C Liu, C Song… - Journal of Monetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Using a unique panel dataset that contains comprehensive information about the
relationships between a large bank and its credit card customers, we show that relationship …

Spillover effects of government initiatives fostering entrepreneurship on the access to bank credit for entrepreneurial firms in Europe

A Moro, D Maresch, M Fink, A Ferrando… - Journal of Corporate …, 2020 - Elsevier
We explore the role of government initiatives fostering entrepreneurship—in the form of tax
advantages and government support—in influencing the probability that entrepreneurial …