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 …

This paper describes the trends in foreign bank ownership across the world and presents, for the first time, empirical … bank subsidiaries across 54 countries from 1997 to 2009, we show that the problems encountered by subsidiaries were not the …. Therefore, we assume that a multinational bank's decision to close or sell a subsidiary in another country is based mainly on …

banks to form alliances with fintechs. Furthermore, we analyze whether such bank-fintech alliances affect the market … Officer. We evidence that markets react more strongly if digital banks rather than traditional banks announce a bank …-fintech alliance. Finally, we find that alliances are most often characterized by a product-related collaboration between the bank and …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters … connections affect the duration of the appointment at the bank. Second, we ask whether connections entrench managers at the …

, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents … quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …

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 …