Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 977-1007
faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firm growth …, distinguishing firms by size and expansion/contraction conditions. The idea is that the beneficial effects of relationship lending on … a large sample of Italian firms. The main finding is that relationship lending hampers the efforts of small firms to …