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Lending Competition and Relationship Banking: Evidence from Japanese Prefectural Level Data

Ogura, Yoshiaki and Yamori, Nobuyoshi (2009): Lending Competition and Relationship Banking: Evidence from Japanese Prefectural Level Data.

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Abstract

The question of whether more competition among banks increases relationship banking, which is predicted to improve credit availability for informationally opaque firms in theory, is a controversial issue in the banking literature. By using firm-level survey data in Japan, this paper provides evidence for the negative correlation between lending competition and the provision of relationship banking . This paper raises the question whether fierce interbank competition is always beneficial for small firms.

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