This paper shows that the global financial and economic crisis has jeopardized the viability of relationship banking in Spain, and threatens to undercut this key element in the national structure of productive financial intermediation. The capacity of the Spanish banking system to provide...

This paper analyses the development that the Spanish banking system has experienced in recent years. This development has been superior to that of the countries of our environment and has been based, principally, on the real-estate boom. Precisely, due to the interdependence between construction...