Do firm-bank relationships affect firms' internationalization?

Riccardo De Bonis, Giovanni Ferri and Zeno Rotondi ()
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Zeno Rotondi: Unicredit Group

No 251, Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to investigate the link between the length of a firm-bank relationship and firm's internationalization. The analysis is carried out on matched firm-bank micro-data from a survey of Italian enterprises from 1998 to 2003. We obtain two main results. First, a longer relationship with the main bank fosters firms' foreign direct investment (FDI) while it does not affect the export status of the enterprises not engaging in FDI. Second, the probability of a firm undertaking FDI further increases if its main bank is itself internationalized by holding foreign subsidiaries.

Keywords: internationalization; foreign direct investments; export; external finance; firm-bank relationships; bank internationalization mode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F10 F21 F23 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-11
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