to competitors in a bank's lending decision? ii) does lending close to competitors substitute for existing credit or …

Credit relationships between commercial banks and quoted firms are studied for the structure and its temporal change … from the year 1980 to 2005. At each year, the credit network is regarded as a weighted bipartite graph where edges … correspond to the relationships and weights refer to the amounts of loans. Reduction in the supply of credit affects firms as …

We present a new approach to understanding credit relationships between commercial banks and quoted firms, and with … this approach, examine the temporal change in the structure of the Japanese credit network from 1980 to 2005. At each year …, the credit network is regarded as a weighted bipartite graph where edges correspond to the relationships and weights refer …