We identify a new source of bank consolidation in the United States. For decades, both the financial and real sides of …

within the community bank segment, larger community banks outperform smaller community banks. Our findings, taken as a whole …

Using data at the bank‐firm level for a large sample of small firms collected through the 8th UniCredit Survey … that a large internationalized bank more strongly supports product innovation, whereas there is no substantial difference …

bank size. I combine this data set with information from almost 850,000 companies in these countries. My results show that …

mediating effect of the competence of entrepreneurs on the relationship between bank finance and performance of MSMEs and bridge … not significant. However, bank finance has a significant positive effect on the performance of MSMEs. Moreover, the study … revealed the significant mediating effect of behavioral finance on the relationship between bank finance and performance of …

-introduce decentralised lending to the island, though running regional banks is challenging in times of low interest rates and tightened bank … Kreditvergabeentscheidungen an KMU für verschiedene Typen von Banken und anderen Finanzintermediären klassifiziert. Aufgrund des frühen …

that could improve SME finance are the so-called challenger banks, a type of bank unknown in Germany. These banks differ in …. The closure of the very last local savings bank in 2017 marks the preliminary end of traditional regional banking in the … one stroke a regional and public banking group with a substantial market share by restructuring the Royal Bank of Scotland …