Does bank instability push borrowers to use crowdfunding as a source of external finance? We identify stressed banks …

We examine the effects of CEO turnover in banks. Incoming bank CEOs face problems from information asymmetry because … banks' operations are opaque and bank risk can change dramatically in a short time. Incoming bank CEOs may therefore change … bank policies to manage their personal risks. Since CEO turnover is usually endogenous, we utilize a setting where CEO …

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

This paper focuses on the effects of corporate governance on bank performance during the financial crisis of 2008 … of corporate governance on bank performance are mixed. Although the results suggest that banks with stronger corporate …, indicating that good governance may have mitigated the adverse influence of the crisis on bank credibility …

impact of bank credit supply frictions on firm performance. I exploit differences in the composition of banks' liabilities … structure during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 as a source of exogenous variation in the availability of bank credit to … nonfinancial firms, in order to identify the causal relationship between bank credit supply and firm performance, measured by firms …

. Although global bank lending is often reported to amplify the international credit cycle, we show that foreign banking acted as …

We study the existence and economic significance of bank lending channels that affect employment in U.S. manufacturing … industries. In particular, we address the question of how a dramatic worsening of firm and consumer access to bank credit, such … access to bank loans matters more for employment than firm access to local bank loans. Our results suggest that, over the …