companies (Deutsche Bank and RWE) with locale providers such as savings banks and municipal utilities (Stadtwerke) motivate this …

Several papers find a positive association between a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm and lending to that firm …

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in bank's lending … foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …, foreign nationalised banks seem to have engaged in financial protectionism, while British nationalised banks have not. -- Bank …