Banks all over the world show interest in acting as venture capitalists. In this paper, I argue that banks offer venture capital (VC) financing along with traditional (collateralized) loans in response to the natural constraints of the hidden information that they face. Innovative entrepreneurs...

Die Arbeit untersucht die vertragliche Ausgestaltung von Kreditverkäufen, wenn zwischendem Kreditverkäufer (Bank) und dem Kreditnehmer die Möglichkeit der Bildung einer zuLasten des Kreditkäufers gehenden vertikalen Kollusion besteht. Die Bank übernimmt nachder Veräußerung des Kredits...

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge...

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge...

This paper investigates banks' corporate social responsibility. The credit market is composed of two sectors: one for standard and one for ethical projects. Since ethical banks are committed to investing in ethical projects, standard and ethical banks compete in the market for ethical projects....

In a model of dual agency problems where borrower-lenders and bank-nonbank incentives may conflict, we predict a hockey stick relation between bank skin in the game and covenant tightness. As bank participation declines covenant tightness increases until reaching a low threshold, at which point...

One of the challenges of modern banks is providing uninsured wholesale depositors with a safe haven. We model banks deciding their own capital and liquidity levels in a forwardlooking manner to absorb an exogenous shock to their investment through interbank trading. A regulatory framework...

Corporate term loans typically include a penalty-free prepayment option. In a model where borrowers strategically prepay, we show that high prepayment risk can trigger credit rationing by the bank. However, an upfront fee, which allows the bank to lower the loan spread and therefore the...

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge...

We document that higher measures of liquidity risk on banks balance sheets are associated with lower expected stock returns. We first calculate a measure of liquidity risk, referred to as the liquidity gap (LG), which reflects how much of a bank's volatile liabilities are covered by its stock of...