Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan

Hirofumi Uchida, Gregory F.Udell, Wako Watanabe

NBER Working Paper No. 13005
Issued in April 2007

---- Acknowledgments ----

This study was conducted as one of the projects of the Regional Finance Workshop of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI). The authors would like to thank the RIETI for financial support, Shuichi Uemura for administrative help and useful comments, and Masaji Kano for his help in constructing the base data set. The authors would also like to thank Allen Berger, Masaru Yoshitomi, Takashi Hatakeda, and the seminar participants at the RIETI and the Monetary Economics Workshop for their comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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