Recent banking theory holds that durable firm-bank relationships are valuable to both parties. Using contract …-specific loan records of a nineteenth-century U.S. bank, this paper shows that firms that form extended relationships with banks … receive three principal benefits. First, firms with extended relationships face lower credit costs. As the bank …

We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages …. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate … loans for 2003-2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer …

We study bank supervision by combining a theoretical model distinguishing supervision from regulation and a novel … supervision and use the model to interpret the relation between supervisory efforts and bank characteristics observed in the data … proportionally with bank size, suggesting the presence of technological scale economies in supervision. The data also show …