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 …. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage relatively more in relationship-based lending but …

We show that competing firms relax overall competition by lowering future barriers to entry. We illustrate our findings …-period profits. This dampens competition for serving the first-period market. …

network of interbank exposures may lead to domino effects following the event of an initial bank failure. The structure of the …

policies to address the role of brown legacy positions and heterogeneous bank business models. …

, which is the risk that a new technology has negative spillovers on the value of a bank's legacy loan portfolio. Using both … overhang. These results hold for two distinct measures of asset overhang and using bank mergers as a source of exogenous … variation in bank specialization. We further show that these heterogeneous effects arise through financial contracting. Overall …

This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … contracts in Belgium. We analyse the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending … relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The environment reflects a number of interesting features: high …

Assessing the impacts of bank mergers on small firms requires separating borrowers with single versus multiple banking …-relationship borrowers who "switch" to another bank following a merger will be less harmed than those whose relationship is "dropped" and not … to be dropped. We track post-merger performance and show that many dropped target-bank borrowers are harmed by the merger …