The Benefits of Relationship Lending in a Cross-Country Context: A Meta-Analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kysucky, Vlado; Norden, Lars
• 署名单位: Shenzhen University; Getulio Vargas Foundation
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2088
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 90-110
• 关键词: banks; bank loans; small and medium-sized enterprises; asymmetric information; COMPETITION

摘要

Relationship lending may create benefits for borrowers by reducing information asymmetries. However, empirical evidence is mixed. We conduct a meta-analysis to summarize and explain the heterogeneity in the results in the literature using hand-collected information from 101 studies in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America from 1970 to 2010. We find that strong relationships are generally beneficial for borrowers, but lending outcomes differ across the relationships' dimensions. Long-lasting, exclusive, and synergy-creating bank relationships are associated with higher credit volume and lower loan rates. These benefits are more likely in the United States and in countries where bank competition is high. They are not related to the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in an economy, suggesting that prevalence of relationship lending does not necessarily come along with borrower benefits. Our inferences are robust when we control for observed systematic heterogeneity in the original studies and hold in a bootstrapping analysis.