competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking. We empirically investigate … the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation. We employ a unique data set containing detailed … information on bank-firm relationships. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage considerably more in …

and explain a remarkable transition from single to multiple firm-bank relationships during the last twenty years of the … sample period. Larger, global, or transparent companies with greater needs for bank credit and specialized services are more … likely to add a bank. Deregulation and intensifying competition in the banking sector during the 1970s spurred banks to …

granted immediately after a bank branch robbery. We find significant differences between the conditions of loans granted after …