We study the role of banking relationships in IPO underwriting. Among other issues, we consider whether banking … relationships lead to increased access to public equity markets, especially for smaller, lesserknown firms. When a firm in Japan … the main bank, but may give rise to conflicts of interest. We use data from two different investment banking regimes in …

We study the role of banking relationships in IPO underwriting. Among other issues, we consider whether banking … relationships lead to increased access to public equity markets, especially for smaller, lesserknown firms. When a firm in Japan … the main bank, but may give rise to conflicts of interest. We use data from two different investment banking regimes in …

. In the case of Japan, foreign universities are/were free to open campuses in Japan to supply tertiary education services … Japan established by foreign universities to supply formal education services in Japan, they are required to satisfy the … Japan actually obtained a formal school status. Moreover, program at the campuses in Japan were not regarded as an …

sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …

243 mergers, we analyze motives for and cost effects of small-scale mergers in German banking. Estimating a frontier cost …

This paper discusses the technological change and financial innovation that commercial banking has experienced during … the past quarter century has been a period of substantial change in terms of banking products, services, and production …

of CO2 allowances considering also emissions impact and banking of allowances by speculative investors. We find that …