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Screening Creditworthiness of SME's: The Case of Small Business Assistance in Turkey

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  • Selcuk Caner

    (International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., USA)

  • Mehmet Baha Karan

    (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)

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In this paper we estimate creditworthiness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that receive financial and non-financial incentives from the small business development administration (KOSGEB) in Turkey. Assessing creditworthiness of SMEs to qualify for government support remains a concern since standard methods based on financial information on firms would be inadequate due to lack of transparent financial information. Such businesses apply for government support because they would not qualify for funding from financial institutions. To assess the creditworthiness of these businesses other firm-level data is essential. A logit model is used to estimate riskiness of SMEs including non-financial data obtained from the business survey obtained by KOSGEB. We find that efficient and internationally competitive SMEs are unlikely to default. Firms with high creditworthiness are also managed by owners and focus on their core businesses.The model used in this paper provides a tool that can be used to better screen applicants seeking incentives as well as monitoring firms under a government support program.

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  • Selcuk Caner & Mehmet Baha Karan, 2012. "Screening Creditworthiness of SME's: The Case of Small Business Assistance in Turkey," Multinational Finance Journal, Multinational Finance Journal, vol. 16(1-2), pages 1-20, March - J.
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    Keywords

    Risk; creditworthiness; credit risk; default; SME; logit;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation

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