Single-bank or multiple-bank relationship can play a role in the degree of corporate risk-taking that inspires financing decisions. We study whether or not the magnitude of corporate risk-taking is associated with bank relationship. We employ the public firms in Taiwan with the sample period...

This paper investigates the effects of national culture on firm risk-taking, using a comprehensive dataset covering 50,000 firms in 400 industries in 51 countries. Risk-taking is found to be higher for domestic firms in countries with low uncertainty aversion, low tolerance for hierarchical...

We investigate the role of national culture in corporate risk-taking. We postulate that culture influences corporate risk-taking both through its effect on managerial decision-making and through its effect on a country's formal institutions. Further, we postulate that the influence of culture is...

I explore an empirically robust but previously undocumented association between the foreign exchange re- serves accumulated by central banks of emerging market economies and dollar-denominated debt held in the balance sheets of non financial sector firms. Borrowing in dollars can have damaging e