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Interest Rate Premia on UK Small‐Firm Bank Borrowings: A Research Note
Author(s) -
Keasey Kevin,
Watson Robert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of business finance and accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.282
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1468-5957
pISSN - 0306-686X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5957.00312
Subject(s) - loan , interest rate , risk premium , economics , sample (material) , interest rate risk , financial economics , monetary economics , econometrics , actuarial science , finance , chemistry , chromatography
This research note examines empirically the determinants of bank interest rate premia for a sample of UK small firms over the period 1986 to 1991. A number of testable hypotheses are formulated regarding the relationship between interest rate premia and a number of firm‐specific risk and cost factors. The empirical results indicate that interest rate premia are significantly related to several of the firm‐specific cost and risk factors. These results suggest that there has been some attempt to incorporate into loan pricing decisions both the direct costs associated with individual loan advances and the specific risk characteristics of the borrower.