This paper examines the firms’ credit availability during the 2007–2009 financial crisis using a dataset of 5331 bank–firm relationships provided by borrowers’ credit folders of three Italian banks. It aims to test whether a strong lender–borrower relationship can produce less credit rationing for borrowing firms even during a credit crunch period. The results show that exclusivity of the relationship can mitigate the firm credit rationing. We also verify the influence of lending organizational structure during crisis. A new measure of distance in lending technologies has been introduced: the hierarchical distance calculated as the distance between the branch that originates the loan and the location of the hierarchical level responsible for financing decision. Our findings document a negative impact of distance on credit availability, consistent with the idea that proximity facilitates the transmission of soft information

Relationship lending, hierarchical distance and credit tightening: evidence from the financial crisis / M. Cotugno; S. Monferrà; G. Sampagnaro. - In: JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE. - ISSN 0378-4266. - ELETTRONICO. - 37:5(2013), pp. 1372-1385.

Relationship lending, hierarchical distance and credit tightening: evidence from the financial crisis

M. Cotugno;
2013

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This paper examines the firms’ credit availability during the 2007–2009 financial crisis using a dataset of 5331 bank–firm relationships provided by borrowers’ credit folders of three Italian banks. It aims to test whether a strong lender–borrower relationship can produce less credit rationing for borrowing firms even during a credit crunch period. The results show that exclusivity of the relationship can mitigate the firm credit rationing. We also verify the influence of lending organizational structure during crisis. A new measure of distance in lending technologies has been introduced: the hierarchical distance calculated as the distance between the branch that originates the loan and the location of the hierarchical level responsible for financing decision. Our findings document a negative impact of distance on credit availability, consistent with the idea that proximity facilitates the transmission of soft information
2013
Relationship lending, hierarchical distance and credit tightening: evidence from the financial crisis / M. Cotugno; S. Monferrà; G. Sampagnaro. - In: JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE. - ISSN 0378-4266. - ELETTRONICO. - 37:5(2013), pp. 1372-1385.
M. Cotugno; S. Monferrà; G. Sampagnaro
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