See also Allen N. Berger, William Goulding, Tara Rice, “Do small businesses still prefer community banks?,” Journal of Banking & Finance 44 (July 2014): 264-278 (finding that small banks may have less strong relationships with small businesses, potentially due to changes in lending technologies and deregulation of the banking industry). 6 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC Small Business Lending Survey (Washington: FDIC, 2018), https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/sbls/full-survey.pdf.
As mentioned in the annual policy, the policy endeavor is to bring headline inflation to around 5.5% in 2008-09 with a preference for bringing it as close to 5.0 per cent as soon as possible, recognising the evolving complexities in globally transmitted inflation.