The analysis of credit risk and its impacting factors are important topics for the European Investment Fund (EIF, the … legislation in Europe as part of the Lisbon strategy. This study investigates the link between legislation and credit risk of … corporate bank debt based on a cross-country study for the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Germany.1 To this end, implied credit risk …

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, notably also in the European Union …&D-intensive firms, tend to choose a relationship lender. The same is observed for firms of high credit quality, independent of their …

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis …

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis …

, especially in credit risk estimation. This makes it, for example, difficult to find temporal structures with statistical … Credit Monitor asset returns (also known as firm-value returns) given on a monthly basis for 756 listed European companies at … 115 time points from 1996 to 2005. This database is used by financial institutions to assess the credit quality of firms …