to those with information reported only by this bank, borrowers with extra information shared by other banks receive … higher credit card lines. While positive information shared by other banks augments lending of this bank, the effect of … Public Registry has mixed effects on how the bank utilizes internally produced information. Last, information sharing …

This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … contracts in Belgium. We analyse the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending … relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The Belgian financial environment reflects a number of …

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 …