Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100322 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Liquidity, Banks, and Borrowing Conditions: Empirical Evidence No. B05-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
We analyze the relationship between firm-specific shocks and aggregate fluctuations. In particular, profitability of firms affected by a negative shock worsens. To the extent that the banks cannot distinguish between aggregate and firm-specific profitability shocks, they will adjust interest rates for all borrowers. We test the influence of individual and bank specific data on lending rate using individual data for firm-bank relationships in Germany between 2005 and 2007. We provide the evidence that firm lending conditions depend on both individual and aggregate profitability. This result is consistent with the interpretation that banks use firm-specific as well as aggregate information when setting corporate lending rates.
JEL: 
E32
G21
L14
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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