Ongena, Steven; Smith, David C.; Michalsen, Dag - 1999
This paper measures the economy-wide impact of bank distress on the loss of relationship benefits. We use the near …-collapse of the Norwegian banking system during the period 1988 to 1991 to measure the impact of bank distress announcements on … the stock prices of firms maintaining a relationship with a distressed bank. We find that although banks experience large …
