paper investigates whether bank ties in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980's and 1990's, and whether … banks continued to facilitate investment once non-bank financing options became available. Using the explicit bond issuing … much larger for main bank client firms, once bond market access is controlled for. This result, coupled with results on the …

We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 …. Finally, we find that bank supervisory agencies that force accurate information disclosure by banks and enhance private …

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset … underlie our structural model, we can quantify the impact capital regulation and other government interventions have on bank …

We present new stylized facts on bank and firm leverage for 2000-2009 using extensive internationally comparable micro …-financial firm and commercial bank before the crisis, but the picture was quite different for large commercial banks in the United …) banks in emerging markets with tighter bank regulation and stronger investor protection experienced significantly less …

We draw on stylized facts from the finance literature to build a model where altering the relative costs of bank and … both the largest and smallest firms. In contrast, reducing the frictions involved in bank lending promotes the expansion of …---promoting bond issuance causes exit while cheaper bank credit induces entry. When reducing transactions costs in one market, the …

not group members, but nevertheless have strong ties to a main bank also invest and sell more than firms without strong … bank ties …

present a model that explains the slow recovery of bank capital and economic activity. Banks provide intermediation in markets … selection. Adverse selection lowers bank profit margins which slows both the internal growth of equity and equity injections …

since the mid-1930s when banks invented the term loan. Concurrently, bank innovation first involved the invention of credit … analysis and covenant design. Later, bank innovation included the advent of loan sales, increased loan syndications, the … calibrate a model of bank innovation to determine the quantitative contribution of bank innovation to economic growth …