This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in … lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset …

examination of credit files of five leading German banks, thus relying on information actually used in the process of bank credit … decision-making and contract design. In particular, bank internal borrower ratings serve to evaluate borrower quality, and the … bank's own assessment of its housebank status serves to identify information-intensive relationships. Additionally, we used …

evidence on the initial credit decision and monitoring process exists due to the lack of appropriate data on bank debt …Despite the relevance of credit financing for the profit and risk situation of commercial banks only little empirical … research project on "Credit Management" which was designed to fill this empirical void. The data set contains a broad list of …

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. …