Using data at the bank‐firm level for a large sample of small firms collected through the 8th UniCredit Survey … that a large internationalized bank more strongly supports product innovation, whereas there is no substantial difference …

EFIGE firm-level data, we show that the depth and strength of firm-bank relationships have heterogeneous effects on credit … and medium firms with a higher share of debt with the main bank have a lower probability of being credit denied, as debt …

Using micro-level data on the entire population of business loans of a bank-based economy, we empirically test some of … the core predictions of the SME financing literature, examining banks' lending specializations in firm size and lending … that banks of different sizes dedicate similar proportions of loans to relationship lending. However, supporting the SME …