obtain more credit and/or lower loan rates under relationship lending. Furthermore, bank competition makes benefits for …__Abstract__ Banks play a crucial role for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs represent a … informationally opaque, more risky, more financially constrained, and more bank-dependent than large firms, which creates serious …

regulatory environment. The statistics show managers given constant importance of SMEs financing opportunities, bank credit pre … concentration, alternative between transactional or relational lending, various types of banks; state owned, private owned, foreign …, large or small, are analyzed to identify the availability for SME financing. Finally, it is recognized the importance of a …

in banking. Our quantity analysis of the likelihood that small businesses borrow from large versus small banks and our … findings from most of the literature on bank size and small business lending. Our results do not suggest a significant net … advantage or disadvantage for large banks in small business lending overall, or in lending to informationally opaque small …

'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

How do banks react to increased interbank competition?Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation í L H WKH choice of relationship based versus transactional banking í DQG EDQN … LQGXVWU\ specialization.We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …

firms.We study the effect on loan conditions of geographical distance between firms, the lending bank, and all other banks … in the vicinity.For our study we employ detailed contract information from more than 15,000 bank loans to small firms … comprising the entire loan portfolio of a large Belgian bank.We control for relevant relationship, loan contract, bank branch …

intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include … what non-bank shareholders achieve. Proxy-voting rights apparently do not provide a significant means for banks to exert …. Allegedly, these relationships promote investment and improve the performance of firms. Furthermore, German universal banks are …

intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include … goes beyond what non-bank shareholders achieve. Proxy-voting rights apparently do not provide a significant means for banks …. Allegedly, these relationships promote investment and improve the performance of firms. Furthermore, German universal banks are …