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Sizing up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis

Greenwood, Robin - 2020

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. Some firms will be able to survive, while others will face bankruptcy and thus need to be liquidated or reorganized. Many surviving firms will need to...

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Guadalupe, Maria - 2008

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...

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How Offshore Financial Competition Disciplines Exit Resistence by Incentive-Conflicted Bank Regulators

Kane, Edward J. - 1999

This paper studies the impact of technological change and regulatory competition on governmental efforts to generate rents for banks in two stylized regulatory environments. In the first environment, incentive-conflicted regulators attempt to create rents by restricting the size and scope of...

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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China

Gao, Haoyu - 2019

Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry … corporate loans from entrant banks. Consequently, in deregulated cities, private firms with bank credit access increase asset … following deregulation. Deregulation also amplifies bank credit from productive private firms to inefficient SOEs due mainly to …

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The Effects of Competition in Consumer Credit Market

Gissler, Stefan - 2019

This paper finds that banks and non-banks respond differently to increased competition in consumer credit markets. Increased competition and the greater threat of failure induces banks to specialize more in relationship business lending, and surviving banks are more profitable. However,...

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Kicking the Can Down the Road : Government Interventions in the European Banking Sector

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

, eventually, greater reliance on liquidity support from the European Central Bank …

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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2009

Banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms the...

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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Gropp, Reint - 2009

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

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Basel II : A Contracting Perspective

Kane, Edward J. - 2006

Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...

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