In this study I empirically examine U.S. publicly traded firms to determine the impact of banking relationships on the future of financially distressed firms. Results demonstrate that banking relationships significantly increase the probability of future firm emergence from distress when firms...

We estimate the impact on individual bank loan growth caused by supervisory restrictions associated with a poor bank examination rating. We use a novel approach to control for bank loan demand variation and estimate a fixed-effect model using an unbalanced panel with over 443,000 bank-quarter...