We examine whether financial conglomeration enhances efficiency of capital allocation or conflicts of interest, focusing on pricing and allocation of IPO stocks in Japan. Regarding underwriting of IPO stocks, our results are consistent with the bank certification hypothesis. As for IPO...

Using a sample of 779 Japanese IPOs over the 2002-2012 period, we find a strong retail orientation in new share allocation. As for institutional allocation, the most complete universal banking form of underwriting neither advantages nor disadvantages investors in affiliated mutual funds, both...

A Chinese subsidiary of a foreign bank issued yuan-denominated bonds on China's domestic interbank bond market for the first time on 20 May 2010. China's corporate bond market, although split between an exchange and an OTC market, has been growing since 2008, but total corporate bonds...

Using a sample of 4757 bilateral bank loans to Chinese enterprises, we analyze the effect of firms' initial public offerings (IPOs) on interest rate savings. Our evidence shows that following successful equity IPOs, firms are granted with a significant discount in their cost of credit. This...

This paper investigates conflicts of interest associated with relationship banking. Using a sample of 270 German initial public offerings (IPOs), we ask if universal-bank-underwritten IPOs perform differently from IPOs underwritten by specialized investment banks. We find that universal-bank...

This research investigates how banks expand after entering the underwriting market by examining the relationship between commercial bank equity investments and underwriting fees. First, we find that not only bank underwriters with private information about issuers, but also those without private...