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The value of in-person banking: evidence from U.S. small businesses

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Zhang, S., Han, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2778-3338, Kallias, K. and Kallias, A. (2021) The value of in-person banking: evidence from U.S. small businesses. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 57. pp. 1393-1435. ISSN 1573-7179

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s11156-021-00982-5

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We produce the first systematic study of the determinants and implications of in-person banking. Using survey data from the U.S., we show that firms which are informationally opaque or operate in rural areas are liable to contact their primary bank in-person. This tendency extends to older, less educated, and female business owners. We find that a relationship based on face-to-face communication, on average, lasts 17.88 months longer, spans a wider range of financial services, and is more likely to be exclusive. The associated loans mature 3.37 months later and bear interest rates which are 11 basis points lower. For good quality firms, in-person communication also relates to less discouraged borrowing. These results are robust to multiple approaches for endogeneity, including recursive bivariate probits, treatment effect models, and instrumental variables regressions. Overall, our findings offer empirical grounding to soft information theory and a note of caution to banks against suppressing channels of interpersonal communication.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Henley Business School > Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting
ID Code:96478
Uncontrolled Keywords:Small business, Relationship banking, Soft information, In-person communication
Publisher:Springer
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