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Time for a change: loan conditions and bank behavior when firms switch banks

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Time for a change: loan conditions and bank behavior when firms switch banks. / Ioannidou, Vasso; Ongena, Steven.
In: Journal of Finance, Vol. 65, No. 5, 2010, p. 1847–1877.

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Ioannidou V, Ongena S. Time for a change: loan conditions and bank behavior when firms switch banks. Journal of Finance. 2010;65(5):1847–1877. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01596.x

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Ioannidou, Vasso ; Ongena, Steven. / Time for a change : loan conditions and bank behavior when firms switch banks. In: Journal of Finance. 2010 ; Vol. 65, No. 5. pp. 1847–1877.

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