CHANG, CHUN; LIAO, GUANMIN; YU, XIAOYUN; NI, ZHENG - In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 46 (2014) 6, pp. 1225-1257
Using a proprietary database from a large Chinese state‐owned bank, we examine whether information evolved from banking relationships predicts commercial loan default by industrial firms. We find that the bank's relationship information is significantly linked to the incidence of default, and...