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Title: Creditor concentration: an empirical investigation
Keywords: G33
G32
G21
ddc:330
bank relationships
asymmetric financing
banking competition
Unternehmen
Kredit
Lieferanten-Kunden-Beziehung
Gläubiger
Hausbank
Deutschland
Issue Date: 16-Oct-2013
Description: Most of the literature addressing multiple banking assumes equal financing shares. However, unequal, concentrated or asymmetric bank borrowing is widespread. This paper investigates the determinants of creditor concentration for German firms using a comprehensive bank-firm level dataset for the time period between 1993 and 2003. We document that lending is very often concentrated and, consequently, that relationship lending is important, not only for the small firms but also for the larger firms in our sample. However, we also find that risky, illiquid, large and leveraged firms spread their borrowing more evenly between multiple lenders. On the other hand, the degree of concentration increases with the profitability of the relationship lender. Relationship lending may spur financing provided by other banks, especially if the relationship lender is a public sector bank and if the other banks are large or do not have to tie up additional funds in capital.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19774
Other Identifiers: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19774
ppn:556670043
RePEc:zbw:bubdp2:6927
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