Using a unique sample of comparable online and in-person loan transactions, we study the determinants of arm's-length and inside lending focusing on the differential information content across debt types. We find that soft private information primarily underlies relationship lending whereas hard...

Using a unique data set of loan applications by small businesses, we study the determinants of loan transactions focusing on the respective roles of private information and borrower proximity. Although credit availability and the offered loan rate decrease in the bank-borrower distance and...

The advent of online lending offers the opportunity to clearly identify transactional and relationship debt in terms of the firm's chosen mode of interaction with the bank. Using a unique data set of comparable online and in-person loan transactions, we study the determinants of arm's-length and...

Corporate disclosure policies, by promoting greater transparency, foster external scrutiny and thus activity in the market for corporate control. A firm's relative reliance on takeovers versus internal board monitoring is therefore itself an aspect of its governance arrangements. However, agency...

This paper explores a firm's reliance on internal and external governance mechanisms, recognizing that the choice of one instrument relative to the other is itself part of the governance policy of the firm. Starting from the premise that firms' disclosure policies can foster external scrutiny...

Regulatory changes and technological advances have profoundly affected the competitive landscape of credit markets. In this paper, we investigate how intermediaries alter their information acquisition strategies in response to increased competition. We specify a model where the severity of...

While competition constrains the ability of banks to extract informational rents from lending relationships, their informational monopoly curtails competition through the threat of adverse selection. These opposing forces also shape banks' incentives to invest in relationship lending expertise....

The emergence in the 1990s of a nascent project bond market to fund long-term infrastructure projects in developing countries merits attention. Dailami and Hauswald compile detailed information on a sample of 105 bonds issued between January 1993 and March 2002 for financing infrastructure...