, and local versus nonlocal banks – in banking relationships. The conventional paradigm suggests that "community banks …

, and local versus nonlocal banks – in banking relationships. The conventional paradigm suggests that “community banks …

, primarily by community banks. The survey evidence suggests that the use of credit scores in small business lending by community … banks is surprisingly widespread. Moreover, the scores employed tend to be the consumer credit scores of the small business …

diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … finds somewhat mixed results. Specifically, we find that banks’ performance tends to be non-monotonically related to their … decreased risk only up to a certain threshold. Additionally, when foreign ownership is either very high or very low, banks tend …

of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient. Only mixed support is …

of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient. Only mixed support is …

U.S. commercial banks are increasingly using credit scoring models to underwrite small business credits. This paper …

the bank.s lending cycle that results in an easing of credit standards. This easing of standards may be compounded by … individual US banks over the period 1980-2000. We employ over 200,000 observations on commercial loan growth measured at the bank …

of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient.Only mixed support is …