Bolton, Patrick; FREIXAS, XAVIER; Gambacorta, Leonardo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
relationship banks gather information on their borrowers, which allows them to provide loans for profitable firms during a crisis …. Due to the services they provide, operating costs of relationship- banks are higher than those of transaction-banks. In … our model, where relationship-banks compete with transaction-banks, a key result is that relationship-banks charge a …