What is the impact of a sudden and sizeable increase in bank capital requirements on the lending activity by directly … affected banks and by non-affected non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs)? To answer this question, we apply a difference … activities, in riskier and more competitive borrower segments, but NBFIs do not seem to rely on increased bank funding to finance …

crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, covering mainly small and medium-sized firms in Eastern … performance; especially when single-bank, small or with limited tangible assets. Moreover, firms in countries with lower financial …

crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, including many small and medium-sized firms, in Eastern … have a relationship with an internationally-borrowing domestic or a foreign bank (as compared to a locally-funded domestic … bank) suffer more in their financing and real performance. Single-bank-relationship firms, small firms and firms with …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks' stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

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