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Rural financial markets under transformation : a study on credit supply and demand in Romania's private farm sector
(2003) Breitschopf, Barbara; Heidhues, Franz
The study analyses the credit supply and demand of farms in the rural area of Romania. A qualitative analysis describes and outlines the problems and bottelnecks the financial and agricultural sector are facing during the transformation period. A detailed quantitative analysis gives the credit supply and demand. Based on a multiple non-linear regression the demand function is derived. Taking into account the special situation in transition countries, the collateral requirements and its evaluation process, the price and market uncertainties as well as the orientation of the farm household on utility maximization, results in different capital demand structures. The credit supply of the financial institution with variing transactions costs is derived from a partial profit function. The results show, that a strong focus of the financial institutions on collateral prevents a matching of credit supply and demand since the farm households are not willing to provide collateral when their total assets are rather limited. A higher screening effort of the banks increases transaction cost but also reduces the default risk.