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ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Volume 112, Issue 477, Pages F32-F53Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00682
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This paper models the inner workings of relationship lending, the implications for bank, organisational structure, and the effects of shocks to the economic environment on the availability of relationship credit to small businesses. Relationship lending depends on the accumulation over time by the loan officer of 'soft' information. Because the loan officer is the repository of this soft information, agency problems are created throughout the organisation that may best be resolved by structuring the bank as a small, closely-held organisation with few managerial layers. The shocks analysed include technological innovations, regulatory regime shifts, banking industry consolidation, and monetary policy shocks.
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