Mercantile Registry and the Bank of Spain Credit Registry (CIR) to classify firms according to their number of banking relations … importance of such groups in a European country. We control for reverse causality by treating bank relationships as endogenous …

information on the geographic distribution of bank branches and matched lenderborrower financial statements during 1996-2004, we … with bank governance. …

We examine firms' motivation to change their main bank and how this switch affects loans, interest payments and firm … performance after switching. Applying treatment effect analysis on unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, we find that larger … and highly leveraged companies are more likely to switch their main bank. Importantly, firms tend to switch to a new main …

We examine why firms change their main bank and how this affects loans, interest payments and firm performance after … switching. Using unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, the treatment effect estimates suggest that more transparent and … riskier companies are more likely to switch their main bank. Importantly, main bank power, measured by equity holdings …

We examine why firms change their main bank and how this affects loans, interest payments and firm performance after … switching. Using unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, the treatment effect estimates suggest that more transparent and … riskier companies are more likely to switch their main bank. Importantly,main bank power, measured by equity holdings, appears …

We provide evidence on the costs and profitability of relationship lending by banks. We derive bank-specific measures … rates, and then estimate cost and profit functions to examine how smoothing affects bank costs and profits.<p> <p …-term contract between a bank and its borrower, while loan rate smoothing in response to an interest rate shock is. …

This paper exploits a unique data set on bank-firm relationships based on syndicated loan deals to examine the effect … essentially allows controlling for all bank and firm characteristics through respective fixed effects, thus avoiding concerns …