We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by …

Between 2010 and 2012 and with bank stability as the ultimate target, five European countries implemented a tax levy on … the impact of the tax levy along bank size and capital structure. We find that banks located in countries where the tax …

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …

opportunity for unlisted firms. Using the Italian Credit Register, we investigate the impact of minibond issuance on bank credit … conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms with new loans … concurrently granted to similar non-issuer firms. We find that issuer firms obtain lower interest rates on bank loans of the same …

branch numbers across countries and the opening and closing of branches, bank fragility and consolidation are surprisingly at … important role than internal processing technology. General bank level factors are more important than local internet access …. Bank internal use of technology appears to be more relevant than use of technology by competitors. While large banks rely …

lower interest rates on bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining … power with banks. Issuer firms also reduce the amount of used bank credit, expand their total and fixed assets, and raise …

comprehensive sample that combines an original set of bank-specific bailout events with balance sheets of key affected and non …