Cowling, M., Liu, W., Yang, H. et al. (1 more author) (2025) Loan size concentration under the UK Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme and SME access to Finance. Journal of Small Business Management. ISSN 0047-2778
Abstract
Credit rationing is most severe for young and small firms. Public loan guarantee schemes are explicitly designed to increase the supply of loans to these types of firms. In this article, we explore how the EFG scheme evolved through the lens concentration of the cash volume of loans issued. Adopting the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), we find that loan size concentration had increased substantially over time, and there was a smaller number of larger loan sizes issued. In short, we posit that it had less relevance to the most acutely rationed small firms and had transitioned into a less targeted scheme. However, we observe different lending behaviors for lenders of different sizes, as smaller lenders became more focused and targeted in their lending over time. It is evident that increasing the diversity of lenders for such schemes would reinforce the effectiveness and relevance of the scheme.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Small Business;loan guarantee schemes; loan size concentration; credit rationing |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Accounting & Finance Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2025 17:10 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2025 13:12 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00472778.2025.2468781 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224168 |