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 …

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 …

We investigate two questions: (1) Do bank lending decisions to small and medium-sized firms provide information about …? Based on a unique, detailed data set of all Norwegian firms' bank accounts and financial statements, the answer to both … questions is yes. Competing 'outside' bank lenders lend to firms who subsequently perform worse than other borrowers, and this …

We investigate two questions: (1) Do bank lending decisions to small and medium-sized firms provide information about …? Based on a unique, detailed data set of all Norwegian firms' bank accounts and financial statements, the answer to both … questions is yes. Competing 'outside' bank lenders lend to fi rms who subsequently perform worse than other borrowers, and this …

We examine the connection between the number of bank relationships and firms' performance using a unique data set on … on assets decrease as the number of bank relationships increases, the effects being stronger for small firms than for …. Particularly for small firms, these results are consistent with finding that suggest that having fewer bank relationships reduces …

This paper studies the effects of the bank capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in October 2011 on … granted by a representative Spanish bank and several subsidiaries to nonfinancial corporations around that date. We document …