We study how investors in a conservative Muslim society react to announcements of bank loans depending on their … compliance with Shari'a law. We hand-collect 173 announcements of bank loans granted to listed corporations in Saudi Arabia …

corresponding imperfect substitutability between private and commercial credit for the entrepreneur's relationship bank is then …

We interview 379 European bank CEOs to identify their banks' main competitors. We then provide evidence on the drivers … of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it … explains variation in firms' credit constraints. We find that banks identify another bank as a main competitor in small …

? Studying various fiscal reforms across Europe with bank- and loan-level data, we find that both the introduction of an equity … subsidy and of a tax on bank liabilities lead banks to refocus their activities on lending. Hence, taxes can be a … complementary tool to capital requirements to reduce bank leverage, while maintaining the supply of credit. More broadly, our …

relationships after their bank branch closes are “better” than regular switchers in terms of unobservable characteristics. Taken …

across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We … find that the alignment between the two bank types is positively related to the country's financial depth, transparency …, economic stability and banking concentration. At the bank level, the alignment in the two banking systems is associated with …