finance and firm activity in Germany in more detail. In particular, we explore a novel data set that matches a full sample of … insensitive to variations in external finance. While German banks affected by the crisis have significantly reduced their credit …

This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all …

examination of credit files of five leading German banks, thus relying on information actually used in the process of bank credit …

paper to provide a direct comparison between housebanks and "normal" banks as to their credit policy. Therefore, we analyze … a new data set, representing a random sample of borrowers drawn from the credit portfolios of five leading German banks … over a period of five years. We use credit-file data rather than industry survey data and, thus, focus the analysis on …

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis … study analyses the determinants of relationship lending in Germany. We find that small, young and R&D-intensive firms tend …

-the-counter interbank market, our results establish that bank-pair relationships have a significant impact on interbank credit availability … and pricing due to mitigating uncertainty about counterparty credit quality. …

This paper analyzes the impact of public credit guarantee schemes on the allocation and performance of bank credit … during the COVID-19 crisis. We exploit exhaustive loan-level data from the credit register with unique information on the … from banks to which they have larger pre-COVID credit exposures, measured as the share of the firm’s total credit …