This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … contracts in Belgium. We analyse the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending … relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The environment reflects a number of interesting features: high …

size of these institutions. A literature review onthe indicators that can impact bank notes has been made. As a result, the … influence on bank credit ratings. Bigger banks receive higher credit ratings than the smaller ones in similar financial … subsamples according to the size of a bank and banking sector and capitalization. …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …