Lending Competition and Relationship Banking: Evidence from Japan

Yoshiaki Ogura and Nobuyoshi Yamori ()

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Abstract: The question of whether more competition among banks increases relationship banking, which is predicted to improve credit availability for informationally opaque firms in theory, is a controversial issue in the banking literature. By using firm-level survey data in Japan, this paper provides evidence for the negative correlation between lending competition and the provision of relationship banking . This paper raises the question whether fierce interbank competition is always beneficial for small firms.

Keywords: relationship banking; lending competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 D82 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-06-30
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