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Bank credit rates across the business cycle: Evidence from a French cooperative contracts database

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  • Dereeper, Sébastien
  • Lobez, Frédéric
  • Statnik, Jean-Christophe

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Financial theory indicates that bank–firm relationships can induce a hold-up problem, resulting in higher interest rates. Yet only weak empirical confirmation of this result exists. Moreover, the potential influence of the business cycle on the bank–firm relationship still requires empirical consideration. With a unique contracts data set, collected from a French cooperative bank between 1996 and 2009, this study shows that the effects of bank–firm relationships on the credit rate depend on economic conditions and that the hold-up problem is at play only during economic recessions.

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  • Dereeper, Sébastien & Lobez, Frédéric & Statnik, Jean-Christophe, 2020. "Bank credit rates across the business cycle: Evidence from a French cooperative contracts database," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbfina:v:112:y:2020:i:c:s0378426617302315
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2017.09.016
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    Banks; Business cycle; Relationship lending; Small business;
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    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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