Degryse, Hans; Masschelein, Nancy; Mitchell, Janet - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2004
This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The environment reflects a number of interesting features: high … external finance to SMEs; and low numbers of bank lending relationships maintained by SMEs. We find that bank mergers generate …