It is well recognized that relationship banking helps to relieve the credit constraints faced by SMEs to access bank … finance. Trust is an important part of relationship banking. However, the term trust is nebulous,and relationship banking … relationship banking is largely unexplored. Using a unique primary dataset of SMEsin the UK, we construct a measure of trust …

Using firm-level destination country-specific export data and bank branch data from China, we find that foreign banks … promote local firms’ export more in sectors in need of trust, promote ordinary export strongly but has almost zero impact on … together, we conclude that foreign banks serve as trust providers in promoting local firms’ export, rather than via financial …

-level destination country-specific export data and bank branch data from China, we find that foreign banks can significantly promote …’ export more in sectors in need of trust, promote ordinary export strongly but has almost zero impact on processing with … foreign banks serve as trust providers in promoting local firms’ export …

functioning of the interbank market in uncertain times. We show that bank couples with a stronger relationship (i.e., more …

expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower … broader voting franchise is more conducive towards the banking sector, consistent with Perotti and von Thadden (2006). Our …