The Benefits of Relationship Lending in a Cross-Country Context: A Meta-Analysis

Vlado Kysucky () and Lars Norden
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Vlado Kysucky: Shenzhen University International Business School, Shenzhen 518060, China

Management Science, 2016, vol. 62, issue 1, 90-110

Abstract: Relationship lending may create benefits for borrowers by reducing information asymmetries. However, empirical evidence is mixed. We conduct a meta-analysis to summarize and explain the heterogeneity in the results in the literature using hand-collected information from 101 studies in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America from 1970 to 2010. We find that strong relationships are generally beneficial for borrowers, but lending outcomes differ across the relationships’ dimensions. Long-lasting, exclusive, and synergy-creating bank relationships are associated with higher credit volume and lower loan rates. These benefits are more likely in the United States and in countries where bank competition is high. They are not related to the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in an economy, suggesting that prevalence of relationship lending does not necessarily come along with borrower benefits. Our inferences are robust when we control for observed systematic heterogeneity in the original studies and hold in a bootstrapping analysis.Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2088 . This paper was accepted by Wei Jiang, finance .

Keywords: banks; bank loans; small and medium-sized enterprises; asymmetric information; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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