Relationship lending: empirical evidence for Germany

Christian Schmieder (), Christoph Memmel () and Ingrid Stein ()

No 2007,14, Discussion Paper Series 2: Banking and Financial Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank, Research Centre

Abstract: Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis of a comprehensive data set comprising information on firm-bank relationships for more than 16,000 observations, this study analyses the determinants of relationship lending in Germany. We find that small, young and R&D-intensive firms tend to choose relationship lending. Furthermore, we find that firms with a higher creditworthiness are more likely to choose a relationship lender. We find that the importance of relationship lending stayed roughly constant since the mid 90s. --

Keywords: Relationship banking; German banking system; SME (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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Working Paper: RELATIONSHIP LENDING - EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR GERMANY (2008)
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