interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage because they can overcome SME opaqueness through relationship … strategic business and seem well-positioned to expand their links with SMEs. The intensification of bank involvement with SMEs …

Using data at the bank‐firm level for a large sample of small firms collected through the 8th UniCredit Survey … that a large internationalized bank more strongly supports product innovation, whereas there is no substantial difference …

within the community bank segment, larger community banks outperform smaller community banks. Our findings, taken as a whole …

mediating effect of the competence of entrepreneurs on the relationship between bank finance and performance of MSMEs and bridge … not significant. However, bank finance has a significant positive effect on the performance of MSMEs. Moreover, the study … revealed the significant mediating effect of behavioral finance on the relationship between bank finance and performance of …

-introduce decentralised lending to the island, though running regional banks is challenging in times of low interest rates and tightened bank … Kreditvergabeentscheidungen an KMU für verschiedene Typen von Banken und anderen Finanzintermediären klassifiziert. Aufgrund des frühen …

We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using …

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow … faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth … and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …