and explain a remarkable transition from single to multiple firm-bank relationships during the last twenty years of the … sample period. Larger, global, or transparent companies with greater needs for bank credit and specialized services are more … likely to add a bank. Deregulation and intensifying competition in the banking sector during the 1970s spurred banks to …

bank loans to U.S. firms over the period of 1980- 2003. We find that investors react positively to such announcements if …’s headquarters state. Investor reaction is, in fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value … bank identities and reputation seem to matter a great deal. …

granted immediately after a bank branch robbery. We find significant differences between the conditions of loans granted after …

bank-level dataset to assess at a quarterly frequency how changes in the U.S. Federal funds rate (before the crisis) and … the existence of a potent global bank lending channel. In response to changes in U.S. monetary conditions, U.S. banks … strongly adjust their cross-border claims in both the pre and post-crisis period. However, we also find that U.S. bank …