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 …

Policy and Poverty Reduction Division, World Bank Institute - is part of a larger effort in the institute to analyze the …