Lending Relationships, Credit Availability, Firm Value and Banking Crises

41 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2008

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Bo Sung Shin

Korea Securities Research Institute

Gregory F. Udell

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance

Sang Yong Park

Yonsei University

Date Written: March 3, 2008

Abstract

We examine whether lending relationships enhance credit availability during banking crises when a bank's willingness to lend is weakest. Using a unique sample of listed firms in Korea we find that during the Asian financial crisis firms with closer banking relationships benefited from greater access to credit even from their undercapitalized banks. This finding persists even after controlling for "evergreening" behavior by undercapitalized banks. We also find that firms with closer banking relationship experienced smaller decrease in their firm values than those with weaker banking relationships. This casts doubt on the view that a shock to a closely-tied bank hurts its relationship borrowers relatively more badly and that firms thus ought to borrow from as many banks as possible.

Keywords: G21

JEL Classification: lending relationship, credit availability, banking crisis

Suggested Citation

Shin, Bo Sung and Udell, Gregory F. and Park, Sang Yong, Lending Relationships, Credit Availability, Firm Value and Banking Crises (March 3, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1102127 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1102127

Bo Sung Shin

Korea Securities Research Institute ( email )

33 Yoido-dong
Yongdeungpo-ku
Seoul, 786-7570
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Gregory F. Udell

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance ( email )

1309 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
United States

Sang Yong Park (Contact Author)

Yonsei University ( email )

Seoul 120-749
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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