TY - UNPD A1 - Elsas, Ralf A1 - Krahnen, Jan Pieter T1 - Is relationship lending special? : Evidence from credit-file data in Germany T2 - Institut für Kapitalmarktforschung (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; Nr. [19]98,05 N2 - The German financial market is often characterized as a bank-based system with strong bank-customer relationships. The corresponding notion of a housebank is closely related to the theoretical idea of relationship lending. It is the objective of this paper to provide a direct comparison between housebanks and "normal" banks as to their credit policy. Therefore, we analyze a new data set, representing a random sample of borrowers drawn from the credit portfolios of five leading German banks over a period of five years. We use credit-file data rather than industry survey data and, thus, focus the analysis on information that is directly related to actual credit decisions. In particular, we use bank-internal borrower rating data to evaluate borrower quality, and the bank's own assessment of its housebank status to control for information-intensive relationships. T3 - CFS working paper series - 1998, 05 KW - relationship lending KW - housebanks KW - loan price determination KW - credit volume KW - Bankkredit KW - Preispolitik KW - Deutschland KW - Kreditgewährung KW - Kreditpolitik KW - Hausbank Y1 - 1998 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4566 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-9306 UR - https://www.ifk-cfs.de/873.html IS - draft: February 24, 1998 EP - 40 PB - Inst. für Kapitalmarktforschung CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -