international journal of tourism cities2017Vol. 13pp. 29-140
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koisova2017montenegrinsmes
Abstract
The aim of every healthy economy is to reduce differences between
regions in economic life, living standards and employment. It is a
difficult task for most countries and especially in the Slovak Republic,
because of the hard-pressed situation in decreasing regional
differences.
Paper's aim was to determine whether from a regional perspective,
exist differences between entrepreneurs' opinion in obtaining loans
in Slovak banks. In this context; we focused on the perception of
bank involvement with SMEs, the transparency of bank lending, the
information gap in bank loan terms and perception of the contemporary
loan terms compared with the past ones. We conducted the
survey on the sample of 541 respondents, in 2016. We found that
more than one-half of them did not believe in bank transparency
and about the same number considered information gap as significant.
Approximately 60% of entrepreneurs thought that credit conditions
are more acceptable than the past ones.