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Lending technologies in Italy: an example of hardening soft information?

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  • Pierluigi Murro

    (University of Bari)

Abstract

We study the firm-main bank relationship in a large sample of Italy's manufacturing enterprises. Our results show that the same firm tends to receive credit via different lending technologies. This complementarity across technologies may have an information basis, because the use of soft information is crucial for each lending technology. This supports the hardening-of-soft-information view, whereby also transactional lenders might somehow use difficult to codify qualitative information - traditionally believed a prerogative of relational banks - on borrowing enterprises.

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  • Pierluigi Murro, 2010. "Lending technologies in Italy: an example of hardening soft information?," Rivista Bancaria - Minerva Bancaria, Istituto di Cultura Bancaria Francesco Parrillo, issue 4, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:rvs:bancar:10_4_2
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    1. Ferri, Giovanni & Murro, Pierluigi, 2015. "Do firm–bank ‘odd couples’ exacerbate credit rationing?," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 231-251.
    2. Andrikopoulos, Panagiotis & Khorasgani, Amir, 2018. "Predicting unlisted SMEs' default: Incorporating market information on accounting-based models for improved accuracy," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 50(5), pages 559-573.
    3. Giovanni Ferri & Pierluigi Murro, 2016. "A Credit Crunch Behind the Great Trade Collapse? Micro Evidence From Europe," CERBE Working Papers wpC10, CERBE Center for Relationship Banking and Economics.
    4. Francesca Bartoli & Giovanni Ferri & Pierluigi Murro & Zeno Rotondi, 2011. "Soft information and loan supply crisis. Evidence from the credit files of a large bank," Rivista Bancaria - Minerva Bancaria, Istituto di Cultura Bancaria Francesco Parrillo, issue 5-6, november.

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    Keywords

    Lending technology; Transactional lending; Relationship lending and Small-and-medium sized enterprises;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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