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, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...

One of the oldest and most awkward conundrums of monetary theory concerns the realization and accumulation of profit in money terms for the aggregate of firms. This paper aims to show that an analysis based on a weak concept of equilibrium as ‘order’, capable of accounting for business...