Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153092 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 658
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We test whether firms with a single bank are better shielded from loss of credit and investment cuts in periods of adverse cash flow shocks than firms with multiple bank relationships. Our estimates of the cash flow sensitivity of investment show that both types of firms are equally subject to financing constraints that bind only in the event of adverse cash flow shocks. In these periods, firms incur lower cuts in investment expenditures when they can obtain extra credit. In periods of adverse cash flow shocks, the probability of obtaining extra bank debt becomes more sensitive to the size and leverage of the firm.
Subjects: 
financial constraints
firm financing
firm investment
lending relationships
JEL: 
D92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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