In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific …, regulatory and legal variables. Regulation does not seem to mitigate risk taking by bank owners. We find no evidence that profit …

compensation. This therefore makes bank financing more attractive. We find that SNWI increases both the demand for new bank loans …

compensation. This therefore makes bank financing more attractive. We find that SNWI increases both the demand for new bank loans …

required as compensation. This makes bank financing more attractive. We find that SNWI increases the demand for new bank loans …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …

Do firms select their main bank relationship according to their risk or risk preferences? Relationship banking is … may not want to bear the additional costs. I employ a nested logit model to study the determinants of the main bank … relationship decision by newly established German firms. I find that firms that ask for bank support in case of financial distress …

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