Banking competition may enhance or hinder the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises. Using a survey on the financing of such enterprises in China, combined with detailed bank branch information, we investigate how concentration in local banking market affects the availability of...

We interview 361 European bank CEOs to identify their banks' main competitors. We then provide evidence on the drivers of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it explains variation in firms' credit constraints. We find that...

We examine the impact of bank competition on the industrial structure using a city-industry level dataset during 2005-2009 in China. We find that bank competition increases the number of firms per capita and decreases average firm size in industries with higher external financial dependence....