Ogawa, Kazuo; Sterken, Elmer; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2005
on loan and equity ownership to address the impact of the Japan-specific bank-firm relations and bank control on the …We explore the determinants of the number of long-term bank relations of listed Japanese firms using a unique data set … covering the period 1982-1999. Japanese listed firms have about seven long-term bank loan relations on average, but show a …