This paper analyses the influence of bank ownership and lending on capital structure for a sample of listed and unlisted Spanish firms in the period 2005–2012. The results suggest that bank ownership allows banks to obtain better information and reduce the agency costs of debt, as it has a...

This paper analyses the influence of bank ownership and lending on capital structure for a sample of listed and unlisted Spanish firms in the period 2005-2012. The results suggest that bank ownership allows banks to obtain better information and reduce the agency costs of debt, as it has a...

This paper analyses the influence of large bank shareholders on the terms of bank loans for a sample of 12,045 loans to 3,290 borrowers from 45 countries over the period 2004-2013. We investigate the effects of bank control over the bank loans terms during the crisis, whether the bank...