enterprises and the constraints to SME financing remain the main topic of policy discussion today. Against this background, the … SME financing. This will also ensure that lending to small-business clients is not a burden to the government and is self …

survey contained in the June bank call reports, we find that small commercial and industrial loans do, in fact, add value for …

In this paper we explore the effects of bank-borrower physical proximity on price and non-price aspects of small … bank-borrower distance and decrease with the distance between borrower and other competing banks. Along the quantity … quantity effects of bank-borrower distance are concentrated among less transparent firms. Our findings are consistent with …

We model how an information asymmetry between the lending bank and the applying firm about the currency structure of …

Based on a unique hand-collected database of 389 loans obtained from a French social bank dealing with small businesses …

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 …

bank financing in a context of increasing financial constraints and higher risk of credit rationing since the crisis. We … of banking relationship: when the manager trusts its main bank, or when he is closer to his loan officer, the firm will …

SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though different bank ownership types apply different …, organizational structures, and SME financing is not consistent with the conventional view that SME lending is based on “relationship …

We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using …