unique data set that covers almost all bank-firm relationships in Italy in the period 2004-2013, we find that, during the …

Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and the advantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a … unique dataset and a focus on the fragility/sturdiness of inferences, this paper evaluates German bank influence in terms of …

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow … faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth … and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … bonus share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail …