Degryse, Hans; Ongena, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
firms.We study the effect on loan conditions of geographical distance between firms, the lending bank, and all other banks … discrimination in bank lending.Loan rates decrease with the distance between the firm and the lending bank and similarly increase … in the vicinity.For our study we employ detailed contract information from more than 15,000 bank loans to small firms …