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Will strangers help you enter?: The effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry

Will strangers help you enter?: The effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry
Will strangers help you enter?: The effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry
We examine the effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry in 83 economies over the 2005-2013 period. The empirical findings show that foreign bank presence exerts a positive and significant effect on firm entry. This effect subdues in countries with strong creditor rights, while it strengthens in economies with high depth of credit information sharing. In further analysis, we find that the type of credit information sharing provider matters. The positive effect of foreign bank presence on firm entry strengthens in the presence of a private credit bureau, whereas it subdues in the presence of a public credit registry. Finally, we find some evidence that cultural and information sharing distance between home and host economies weakens the positive effect of foreign bank presence on firm entry. In terms of policy, attracting foreign banks while strengthening credit information sharing through private credit bureaus could benefit entrepreneurship in host economies.
foreign banks, firm entry, creditor rights , information sharing
0920-8550
1-38
Bermpei, Theodora
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Kalyvas, Antonios Nikolaos
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Bermpei, Theodora, Kalyvas, Antonios Nikolaos, Neri, Lorenzo and Russo, Antonella (2019) Will strangers help you enter?: The effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry. Journal of Financial Services Research, 56 (1), 1-38. (doi:10.1007/s10693-017-0286-1).

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Abstract

We examine the effect of foreign bank presence on new firm entry in 83 economies over the 2005-2013 period. The empirical findings show that foreign bank presence exerts a positive and significant effect on firm entry. This effect subdues in countries with strong creditor rights, while it strengthens in economies with high depth of credit information sharing. In further analysis, we find that the type of credit information sharing provider matters. The positive effect of foreign bank presence on firm entry strengthens in the presence of a private credit bureau, whereas it subdues in the presence of a public credit registry. Finally, we find some evidence that cultural and information sharing distance between home and host economies weakens the positive effect of foreign bank presence on firm entry. In terms of policy, attracting foreign banks while strengthening credit information sharing through private credit bureaus could benefit entrepreneurship in host economies.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 December 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 February 2018
Published date: 15 August 2019
Keywords: foreign banks, firm entry, creditor rights , information sharing

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Local EPrints ID: 417590
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/417590
ISSN: 0920-8550
PURE UUID: 0753e8e7-51e4-4ce8-972c-0b001c7d87a4
ORCID for Antonios Nikolaos Kalyvas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4416-7032

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Author: Theodora Bermpei
Author: Antonios Nikolaos Kalyvas ORCID iD
Author: Lorenzo Neri
Author: Antonella Russo

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