Este trabajo documenta el comportamiento agregado de las empresas no financieras en las principales economías de la zona del euro y lo compara con el de Estados Unidos a partir de la información de las Cuentas Nacionales Sectoriales y las Cuentas Financieras. Encontramos diferencias muy...

Este estudio analiza la evolucion de la estructura financiera de la empresa manufacturera española en el periodo 83-89 a partir de una muestra de 670 empresas de la Central de Balances del Banco de España. El analisis de las posibles diferencias por tamaños de empresas evidencia: (1) una...

This paper investigates the existence and determinants of interest rates dispersion in loans and deposits of Spanish banks. A unique feature of the research is that it covers a whole industry (thirty products and two hundred banks) from 1989 to 2003. We find that: i) interest rates dispersion is...

In this paper we study the specialization of Spanish banks along two intertwined dimensions: size and ownership form. We find some interesting results at odds with the existing empirical literature. As commercial banks increase their size, they lend more to large borrowers but that is not the...

This paper investigates the relationship between credit market competition and the availability of bank credit for firms of unobserved credit quality when firms pledge collateral to secure the loans. Loan data from the Spanish Credit Register shows that the average credit quality of borrowers...

The paper sets an accounting and behavioral framework from which we derive a reduced-form equation to test income smoothing and capital management practices through loan loss provisions (PLL) by Spanish banks. Spain offers a unique environment to perform those tests because there are very...