’s performance and soft information factors in inter-bank competition. The authors’ empirical results suggest that utilizing soft … information allows banks to attain a more precise lending decision. The Financial Services Agency in Japan introduced an action … examines how relationship lending affects lending performance in inter-bank competition. The conclusion is that, even though …

concentrating their lending disproportionately into one industry. This specialization improves a bank’s industry-specific knowledge … and, ultimately, bank performance. Banks concentrate more on their primary industry in times of instability and relatively …

Geographic expansion negatively impacts bank outcomes during recessions. While increases in average bank …-to-branch distance for a given bank have a small positive impact on bank performance, increases in average bank-to-branch distance across …

This study extents the literature of the advising bank's positive influence on the performance in mergers and … the lowest returns. The second level of endogeneity is caused by the observability of the influence of the bank's industry … expertise on the performance only when the acquirer decided to employ a bank as advisor and to choose that bank in particular …