This study analyzes the impact of bank relationships on a firm’s cost of debt. We focus on relationships with the main bank. We find that a firm’s cost of debt decreases with relationship strength, proxied by the share of bank debt provided by the main lender, but rises with relationship...

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of an housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. The...

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