in accessing funds in the Covid-19 pandemic period. Then are ties between relationship bankers and SME borrowers a case … of ‘true love’ or rather are the parties more akin to ‘fair-weather friends’? Data from the UK SME Finance Monitorfrom … acquisition of bank credit pre-Covid-19 but was oflimited influence in post-Covid-19 lending behaviour. Banks treated SMEs that …

opportunity for unlisted firms. Using the Italian Credit Register, we investigate the impact of minibond issuance on bank credit … conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms with new loans … concurrently granted to similar non-issuer firms. We find that issuer firms obtain lower interest rates on bank loans of the same …

document that successful cyberattacks decrease branch deposit growth rates at small US banks. This decrease is due to bank …-specific reputational damages that erode the trust of bank customers. The loss of trust results in a reallocation of deposits within local …

the bank's funding constraint. However, banks will generally set an interest rate higher than this socially optimal one …

We estimate a structural model of bank portfolio lending and find that the typical U.S. community bank reduced its … effects (consistent with a reduction in the liquidity of assets held on bank balance sheets) and by reduced loan supply …

We investigate how communication within banks affects small-business lending. Using travel time between a bank … evaluate the impact of within bank communication costs on small-business loans. We find that reducing headquarters …