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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Keep Walking? Geographical Proximity, religion,and Relationship Banking |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Islamic Banking & Finance Research Conference |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Riyadh |
| Event Start Date | March 13 - 2016 |
| Event End Date | March 15 - 2016 |
| Abstract Text | We investigate the geographical proximity of firms to their relationship banks. We find that (compared to the firms` average bank) Islamic, foreign and state banks are more, and large banks less remote to their borrowers. We also find that the probability for a firm to connect to a bank substantially decreases in distance, but that the choice along bank characteristics determines how potent distance is in its impact. For example, if the bank in the vicinity is an Islamic bank, distance plays a more muted role, especially in cities in the Mediterranean and Aegean regions, as well as in cities with a high conservative party vote and higher trust in religious institutions. Also when engaging with small, foreign or state banks physical distance no longer plays a crucial role in determining the firms` choices. Overall these findings suggest that the presence of banks with certain characteristics in the vicinity of firms may determine the within-firm and across-firm configurations of observable firm-bank connections. |
| PubMed ID | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2635385 |
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