intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include … what non-bank shareholders achieve. Proxy-voting rights apparently do not provide a significant means for banks to exert … management control. Most of the recent evidence regarding small firms suggests that a Hausbank relationship can indeed be …

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow … faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth … and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …

The theoretical literature has identified potential benefits and costs of close bank-firm relationships for both …