TY - UNPD A1 - Bannier, Christina E. T1 - Heterogeneous multiple bank financing, optimal business risk and information disclosure T2 - Universität Frankfurt am Main. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften: [Working paper series / Finance and accounting] Working paper series, Finance & Accounting ; No. 148 N2 - Small and medium-sized firms typically obtain capital via bank financing. They often rely on a mixture of relationship and arm’s-length banking. This paper explores the reasons for the dominance of heterogeneous multiple banking systems. We show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower’s quality and on the relationship bank’s information precision. Generally, heterogeneous multiple banking leads to fewer inefficient credit decisions than monopoly relationship lending or homogeneous multiple banking, provided that the relationship bank’s fraction of total firm debt is not too large. T3 - Working paper series / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Finance & Accounting - 148 KW - Klein- und Mittelbetrieb KW - Risk KW - Relationship Lending KW - Asymmetric Information KW - Liquidity Crisis KW - Efficiency KW - Kredit Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3725 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-17588 IS - March 2005 PB - Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -