Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find no …

registries to examine whether the risk-return relationship holds in banking. After controlling for bank, loan, and debtor … characteristics as well as macroeconomic conditions, results indicate that a risk-return relationship in bank lending is present but … varies significantly across and within borrower segments. While bank lending rates appear to be quite responsive to risks …

relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior …

businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their … increase leverage and substitute long-term bank debt with FinTech debt. Our findings suggest that FinTech allows firms to … preserve financial exibility, reduce their bank dependence and exposure to banking shocks. …

This paper presents evidence that personal relationships between corporate borrowers and bank loan officers improve the … outcomes of loan renegotiation. Analysing a bank reorganization in Greece in the mid-2010s, I find that firms that experience …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks' attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank's risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks' funding costs, and banks' funding risks are re ected in bank lending rates …

hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …

This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in … strong determinants of credit rejections, in the crisis period bank weakness made it harder to obtain external finance for …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …