Banks have been heavily involved in securitization. We study whether the involvedness of a firm's main bank into … and during the 2007-8 financial crisis. Both types of securitization allow the bank to generate liquidity. To the extent … rationing, we find that a longer relationship with a firm's main bank considerable improve credit supply. In general, we find …

and reduce the degree of credit rationing. In general, we find that a relationship with a bank that is more involved in … a firm's main bank aggravates these firm's credit rationing in crisis periods …

rationing. In general, we find that a relationship with a bank being more involved in securitization activities relaxes credit … credit rationing in normal periods, the issuance of MBS by a firm's main bank aggravates these firm's credit rationing in …

Banks have been heavily involved in securitization. We study whether the involvedness of a firm's main bank into … and during the 2007-8 financial crisis. Both types of securitization allow the bank to generate liquidity. To the extent … rationing, we find that a longer relationship with a firm's main bank considerable improve credit supply. In general, we find …

types of institutions ?banks and non-bank financial institutions ?have a (significantly different) impact on local economic … growth. Our findings show that banks outperfirm non-bank financial institutions. Only banking development exerts a …

-up firms over the period 2007-2009, we find that high-tech startups are less likely to use bank finance and face more … difficulties in raising bank finance than low-tech start-ups. We find that external credit scores do affect the availability of …-tech start-ups than low-tech start-ups. Start-ups that have their main relation with a small bank use more bank finance and …