Degryse, Hans; Masschelein, Nancy; Mitchell, Janet - In: Proceedings (2005) May, pp. 148-165
This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … contracts in Belgium. We analyze the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending … providing external finance to SMEs; and low numbers of bank lending relationships maintained by SMEs. ; We find that bank …