Our analysis highlights central aspects of the role of Japanese bank-firm relationships in times of deregulation. Comparing our results with earlier findings, it becomes evident that financial deregulation has triggered dramatic changes concerning the position of banks in the financial market...

This documentation provides an overview of the Kaisha Database, a database consisting of annual accounts data of Japanese manufacturing firms. The documentation is aimed at enabling the researcher interested in the database to work independently. The structure as well as the procedures used to...

Die vorliegende Dokumentation vermittelt einen umfassenden Einblick in die Systematik der Kaisha-Datenbank. Sie soll interessierten Lesern einen Überblick über die Grundstruktur der Datenbank geben. Neben einer Darstellung des Aufbaus erfolgt die Beschreibung der Vorgehensweise bei Reformen...

The paper is a first step to tests the impact of bank-firm-relationships on corporate performance under changing economic conditions. Using a data set of standardized annual financial statements of 100 Japanese corporations all listed at the First Section of the Tokyo stock exchange, at the...