with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

This study examines the expectations that both small business firms and bankers have regarding the bank selection … significant differences in expectations are noted. The results suggest a communication gap in the small business/commercial bank …

competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …

? Using data from the Czech National Bank and data on individual Czech banks, I find evidence that in 1995 banks are provided … portfolio switch and find that the central bank instituted a monetary tightening during a regime of fixed exchange rates and … mobile capital. The central bank sterilized the continuing capital inflows. The resulting higher interbank interest rates and …

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank … long-term bank-customer relationships. The present paper takes a new look by considering also interactional variables which …