What is in banks’ private information about borrowers, and how does it relate to physical distance and relationship length? Exploiting the Federal Reserve’s comprehensive supervisory loan-level dataset on corporate borrowers, we distinguish two dimensions of private information embedded in...

Does private information banks generate about their corporate borrowers deepen and change in nature over time, and if so, how? Exploiting the comprehensive Federal Reserve’s supervisory dataset, we distinguish two private information dimensions embedded in internal credit ratings: depth and...

This paper studies the effects of institutional distance and geographic distance on Chinese venture capital (VC) investment and subsequent exit, and further investigates how social capital, that is, network and trust, moderates such effects. We document significant dampening effects of both...