estimation. The analysis allows to distinguish between rents that accrue due to single bank lending, rents that accrue due to …

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank … long-term bank-customer relationships. In contrast, the present paper also considers interactional variables which try to … measure social relations between loan officer and firm manager. Using bank survey data, the relationship and interaction …

of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans. …

of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans. …

Assessing the impacts of bank mergers on small firms requires separating borrowers with single versus multiple banking …-relationship borrowers who "switch" to another bank following a merger will be less harmed than those whose relationship is "dropped" and not … to be dropped. We track post-merger performance and show that many dropped target-bank borrowers are harmed by the merger …

merger related effects on small business lending in Germany from a bank-level perspective. Furthermore, we estimate small …