intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include … what non-bank shareholders achieve. Proxy-voting rights apparently do not provide a significant means for banks to exert … management control. Most of the recent evidence regarding small firms suggests that a Hausbank relationship can indeed be …

examination of credit files of five leading German banks, thus relying on information actually used in the process of bank credit … decision-making and contract design. In particular, bank internal borrower ratings serve to evaluate borrower quality, and the … bank's own assessment of its housebank status serves to identify information-intensive relationships. Additionally, we used …

We studied information and interaction processes in six lending relationships between a universal bank and medium sized …, bank monitoring is based mainly on cheap, retrospective and internal data. In case of distress, more expensive, prospective … firm's investments might leave the bank in a very strong bargaining position and distort investment incentives. Therefore …

of banks and firms which is obtained by setting a link between a bank and a firm when a credit relationship is present in …

This paper proposes a stochastic model of a bipartite credit network between banks and the non-bank corporate sector … that encapsulates basic stylized facts fond in comprehensive data sets for bank-firm loans for a number of countries. When …

decreases if the creditor concentration is high and if the duration of bank-firm relationships is long. While these results …

This paper empirically characterizes relationship lending using data from more than 20,000 loans of a Spanish bank to … previous bank-firm relationship, allowing for the identification of non-linear pricing patterns in the bank-firm relation. We … dimensions: Relationship age and having additional contracts – other than loans – with the bank …

concentration of credit relationships and the position of a bank in the network topology of the system influence the bank’s ability … by the individual banks in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) weekly repo auctions. The bids measure each bank …’s willingness to pay for liquidity since they had variable rate tenders with a “pay-your-bid” price. Controlling for bank …

relationship bank, but not to a transaction bank. We show that borrowers self-select to relationship banks depending on whether …