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 …

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 …

competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking. We empirically investigate … the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation. We employ a unique data set containing detailed … information on bank-firm relationships. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage considerably more in …

Current empirical methods to identify and assess the impact of bank credit supply shocks rely strictly on multi-bank … firms and ignore firms borrowing from only one bank. Yet, these single-bank firms are often the majority of firms in an …-location-size-time fixed effects) that allows identifying timevarying cross-sectional bank credit supply shocks using both single- and multi-bank …

to those with information reported only by this bank, borrowers with extra information shared by other banks receive … higher credit card lines. While positive information shared by other banks augments lending of this bank, the effect of … Public Registry has mixed effects on how the bank utilizes internally produced information. Last, information sharing …