widespread branch closures may reduce their supply of credit. Using the closing of two thirds of Swedish branches as a laboratory …, we document that corporate lending declines rapidly following branch closures, mainly via reduced lending to small and … increase in exit risk after branch closures. Our results thus suggest that the disappearance of bank branches have far …

through credit and loans. As major banks reduced their branch networks in recent years, many firms have lost access to their … local bank. We evaluate the impact of a large number of branch closures on firm operations, wages and employment, and …, employing both two-way fixed effects and Callaway-Sant'Anna estimators. Our study finds that bank branch closures result in a …