bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks' capital structures …

Bank loans through bank-firm relationship is expected to enhance the performance of firms owing to the possession of … and 2007 and analyzed it with OLS, FE and GMM models to verify the impact of bank loans and ownership structure on firm … productivity. The results show that bank loans and director ownership had negative impact on the efficiency of firms; however …

This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all … bank characteristics, our results indicate that exporting firms take out loan s around 15 percent larger than those of non-exporters. …

Based on a survey of Mexican firms, this paper provides evidence of the positive effect of bank credit on firms …' productivity. This effect is larger for those firms with access to bank credit and investment opportunities than for firms that … only have either investment perspectives or bank credit. The potential problem of endogeneity in the empirical estimates is …