This paper investigates whether monitoring by bank lenders affects CEO incentives of borrowing firms. We find that an … increase in bank monitoring incentives significantly reduce the sensitivity of CEO wealth to stock return volatility (Vega …). The results are more profound when bank lenders are more powerful and reputable and have a prior lending relationship with …

We examine the impact on a firm when it is exogenously forced to switch its bank relationship from one branch to … another branch of the same bank. We show the effect depends directly on the relative balance between the hard accounting … information provided to the bank by the firm, as part of the bank's internal credit rating system and the provision of soft …