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...

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...