This paper studies how high uncertainty affects corporate bank loans, addressing the important identification issue. In … supply. To isolate the uncertainty effect from the credit supply effect, we employ matched bank-firm loan data covering all … loans extended by all financial intermediaries to the universe of listed firms in Korea, a bank-centered economy. Our …

- the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and …

This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all … bank characteristics, our results indicate that exporting firms take out loan s around 15 percent larger than those of non-exporters. …

This study investigates whether fluctuations in credit supply in a macroeconomy and a relational bank's financial … effects of credit market tightness are more evident for small firms. Examining firm-bank matched data, we also find that … suggesting that a bank's financial weakness places the leverage of relationship firms into a suboptimal level for a long period …