Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms …. Germany is the prototypical economy where universal banks allegedly exert substantial influence over firms. Despite frequent … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and the advantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a …

Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms …. Germany is the prototypical economy where universal banks allegedly exert substantial influence over firms. Despite frequent … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and theadvantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a …

the main source of value. In this view, an empirical survey on 61 bank managers of large and small banks has been carried … and small and medium enterprises and (2) how the relationship between bank and firm varies together with the dimensional …

We study how a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm affects lending to that firm. Similar to prior papers, we find a … positive association between a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm and lending to that firm. While such a positive cross …