Bank Lending, Geographical Distance, and Credit risk: An Empirical Assessment of the Church Tower Principle

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Bank Lending, Geographical Distance, and Credit risk: An Empirical Assessment of the Church Tower Principle

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Carling , Kenneth () (Department of Economics)
Lundberg, Sofia () (Center for Regional Science)

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Sofia Lundberg

Abstract

Does the Church Tower Principle, i.e. geographical proximity between borrowing firm and lending bank, matter in credit risk management? If so, the bank might expose itself to a greater risk by lending to distant firms and should therefore respond by rationing them harder. In this paper we incorporate the Church Tower Principle in a simple theoretical model and derive implications that are empirically testable. We use data on corporate loans granted 1994 to 2000 by a leading Swedish bank and find no evidence that the principle applies.

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Paper provided by Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden) in its series Working Paper Series with number 144.

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Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: 01 Dec 2002
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Economics and Business, 2005, pages 39-59.
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