Trust, interlinking transactions and credit in the industrial district
研究了工业区中基于声誉投资的信任如何替代抵押品获取信贷,以及关联交易(尤其是分包)中的非正规信贷如何成为重要融资方式,并分析了双重金融中介在缓解信息问题、减少信贷配给中的作用。
An essential feature of the 'industrial district' is trust among individuals and firms within it. This paper focuses mainly on trust based on investments in building up a good reputation that is a 'personal capital' that can even substitute for collateral in obtaining credit. Informal credit, often linked to other transactions and especially subcontracting, is therefore an important way of financing economic development in the industrial district. Moreover, the importance of trust as personal capital gives rise to a double financial intermediation. In the industrial district, this double intermediation constitutes a device to reduce information problems that are usually responsible for credit rationing. (c) 1994 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright 1994 by Oxford University Press.