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Pagano, Marco; Zechner, Josef - 2022

We distill evidence about the effects of COVID-19 on companies. Stock price reactions to the shock differed greatly across firms, depending on their resilience to social distancing, financial flexibility, and corporate culture. The same characteristics affected the response of firms' sales,...

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Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance of Chinese Banks

Weber, Olaf - 2018

Purpose – This paper analyses the connection between the sustainability performance of Chinese banks and their financial indicators to explore whether sustainability regulations can be implemented without decreasing the financial performance of the banking sector.Design/methodology/approach...

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Lending Networks of China's Listed Companies : The Role of Financial Leverage, Firm Size, and Performance

Burzynska, Katarzyna - 2015

China. Egocentric lending networks are constructed using the public loan announcements of firms listed on China's two stock … to the standard firm characteristics, suggesting that partly state-owned corporations in China still enjoy privileged … access to bank financing, despite substantial reforms and growing competition in China's banking sector …

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Corporate governance, political connections, and bank performance

Haris, Muhammad; Yao, Hongxing; Tariq, Gulzara; Javaid, … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 4/62, pp. 1-37

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance characteristics and political connections of directors on the profitability of banks in Pakistan. The study uses the data of 26 domestic banks over the latest and large period of 2007-2016. Our findings firstly affirm that bank...

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Shapeshifting Corporations

Partnoy, Frank - 2010

This Article examines whether recent shifts among private and public markets are part of a more general phenomenon of “shapeshifting” among corporate entities. A shapeshift is a transformation of corporate form involving the creation or use of a new legal entity and one or more changes in...

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Does High-Speed Rail Boost Local Bank Performance? Evidence from China

Wen, Huiyu; Zhou, Yue; Zhao, Danni; Gao, Haoyu - 2022

This paper investigates whether and how high-speed rail (HSR) construction affects local bank performance. Using the difference-in-difference method, we find that the city commercial banks (CCBs) significantly experience an overall decrease in ROA after HSR is introduced in the headquarters...

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External financing and firm growth : evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Iran

Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Fereidouni, Hassan … - 2023

This study examines the relationship between access to finance and growth in sales for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Iran. Using data from 486 firms in five provinces, our findings indicate that external financing positively impacts sales growth for MSMEs. The results suggest...

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Firm Size, Corporate Debt, R&D Activity, and Agency Costs : Exploring Dynamic and Non-Linear Effects

Canarella, Giorgio - 2019

This paper empirically investigates firm-specific determinants of agency costs, a relatively new and unexplored area in corporate finance. We estimate dynamic agency costs models, linking debt, firm size, and R&D activity to agency costs for a panel of U.S. information and communication...

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Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Huber, Kilian - 2021

The effects of large banks on the real economy are theoretically ambiguous and politically controversial. I identify quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship banks became bigger. In fact, opaque borrowers grew more...

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Are bigger banks better? : firm-level evidence from Germany

Huber, Kilian - 2020

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