Figures & data
Notes: For European countries, members of the European Association of Mutual Guarantee Societies, including mutual, public, and private–public schemes. For Chile, Chinese Taipei, Japan, and the USA, the data refer to 2010. Source: OECD (Citation2013).
Note: Results for all industries and all firms except the financial industry. Source: The Bank of Japan’s quarterly short-term economic survey (Tankan).
Table 1. Eligible SMEs and micro-enterprises
Table 2. Number of users (in thousands)
Table 3. Historical development of the Japanese credit guarantee system
Table 4. Credit guarantee fee rate classification
Table 5. Size of respondents
Table 6. Changes in sales from the previous year
Table 7. Changes in borrowing conditions
Table 8. Usage history of credit guarantees
Table 9. Types of credit guarantee programs used
Table 10. Ratio of guaranteed borrowing
Table 11. Measures taken to tackle the crisis
Table 12. Who advised firms to use guaranteed loans?
Table 13. What would the firms have done if their application for guaranteed loans had been rejected? (Multiple choices)
Table 14. Whether firms will use the credit guarantees and why they do so
Table 15. Opinions on the future of the credit guarantee system
Table 16. Revenue and expenditure of 52 Credit Guarantee Corporations (FY 2011) (million yens)
Table 17. JFC’s credit insurance business (billion yens)
Source: Ministry of Finance, Japanese Government, Japan’s Fiscal Condition as of December 2013. https://www.mof.go.jp/english/budget/budget/fy2014/02.pdf.