evidence reveals that (i) the top three banks, RBC Financial Group, TD Bank Financial Group, and Scotiabank are more …

have a funding advantage over small banks after controlling for bank-specific and market risk factors. Working with hand …

Burkart and Ellingsen's (2004) model of trade credit and bank credit rationing predicts that trade credit will be used … by medium-wealth and low-wealth firms to help ease bank credit rationing. The author tests these and other predictions of …-wealth firms substitute trade credit for bank credit consistent with using it to alleviate bank credit rationing. The low …

The recent crisis has underlined the importance of sound bank liquidity management. In response, regulators are … authors analyse the impact of liquid asset holdings on bank profitability for a sample of large U.S. and Canadian banks … that this relationship varies depending on a bank’s business model and the state of the economy. These results are …

this natural experiment to evaluate the consequences of bail out expectations for bank behavior using a difference in …

. We apply this framework to the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey by describing the sampling method in terms of … simulations on a comprehensive micro-dataset of Canadian firms. We find, under certain assumptions, no evidence that the Bank …