Bank market structure, competition, and SME financing relationships in European regions
Bank market structure, competition, and SME financing relationships in European regions
How do concentration and competition in the European banking sector affect lending relationships between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their banks? Recent empirical evidence suggests that concentration and competition capture different characteristics of banking systems. Using a unique dataset on SMEs for selected European regions, we empirically investigate the impact of increasing concentration and competition on the number of lending relationships maintained by SMEs. We find that competition has a positive effect on the number of lending relationships, weak evidence that concentration reduces the number of banking relationships and weak persistent evidence that they tend to offset each other
sme financing, relationship banking, bank market structure
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Mercieca, Steve
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Schaeck, Klaus
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Wolfe, Simon
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December 2009
Mercieca, Steve
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Schaeck, Klaus
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Wolfe, Simon
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Mercieca, Steve, Schaeck, Klaus and Wolfe, Simon
(2009)
Bank market structure, competition, and SME financing relationships in European regions.
Journal of Financial Services Research, 36 (2-3), .
(doi:10.1007/s10693-009-0060-0).
Abstract
How do concentration and competition in the European banking sector affect lending relationships between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their banks? Recent empirical evidence suggests that concentration and competition capture different characteristics of banking systems. Using a unique dataset on SMEs for selected European regions, we empirically investigate the impact of increasing concentration and competition on the number of lending relationships maintained by SMEs. We find that competition has a positive effect on the number of lending relationships, weak evidence that concentration reduces the number of banking relationships and weak persistent evidence that they tend to offset each other
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Published date: December 2009
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sme financing, relationship banking, bank market structure
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/71398
ISSN: 0920-8550
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Klaus Schaeck
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