Using the geographic location data of 218,554 commercial bank branches in China, we find that an increasing number of … bank branches in the vicinity of enterprises, namely bank competition, leads to higher corporate employment, particularly … effect of bank competition on corporate employment, suggesting a substitution between banks and fintech lenders. Three …

insight into this debate from the perspective of commercial bank branches expansion. This paper manually collects the … longitude and latitude of commercial bank branches and manufacturing firms in China, and constructs multiple bank branches … bank branches expansion on firms’ energy efficiency for the first time and discusses the potential impact channels from the …

This paper merges industrial enterprise database, patent database, and financial licensing data to show that more bank …-stock commercial bank branches’ increase is the main driver of the effect above. The effect is more significant in innovative …