How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

Current empirical methods to identify and assess the impact of bank credit supply shocks rely strictly on multi-bank … firms and ignore firms borrowing from only one bank. Yet, these single-bank firms are often the majority of firms in an …-location-size-time fixed effects) that allows identifying timevarying cross-sectional bank credit supply shocks using both single- and multi-bank …

Portuguese banks to investigate how these inspections affect banks' future lending decisions. We find that an inspected bank …