impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and … specialization. We employ a unique data set containing detailed information on bank-firm relationships and industry classification …

associated with loan terms, we document that longer firm-bank relationships deepen private information often strongly nonlinear … firms, smaller, leveraged, and illiquid banks, at longer firm-bank distances, and during non-COVID times. …