Overdraft Facility Policy and Firm Performance : An Empirical Analysis in Eastern European Union Industrial Firms
This article evaluates the effect of the
overdraft facility (or line of credit) policy by comparing a
large sample of overdraft facilitated firms and matched
non-overdraft facilitated firms from Eastern Europe at the
sector level. The sample firms are compared with respect to
rates of different performance indicators including:
technical efficiency (a Data Envelopment Analysis approach
is applied to estimate the technical efficiency level for