The banking literature concludes that the performance of client firms deteriorates if their distressed main bank … other banks, such that if a client firm changes its main bank, its access to credit worsens. Using Japanese data from a … period including financial shocks, we show that firms change the main banking relationship when their main bank becomes …

We use data on 1,294 banks in Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how bank ownership and creditor coordination in the …

collateral. This latter finding suggests that the information provided by MGIs turned out to be key for bank-firm relations as …

the crisis this large bank used soft information to shift its loan supply toward borrowers with lower ex ante asymmetries …

recommendations of the 2004 FSAP. Many improvements have been made to bank and securities supervision. The banking sector as a whole …

discipline bank behavior. By controlling for a more comprehensive set of risk/return factors, the study improves upon …

A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in present …