We studied information and interaction processes in six lending relationships between a universal bank and medium sized …, bank monitoring is based mainly on cheap, retrospective and internal data. In case of distress, more expensive, prospective … firm's investments might leave the bank in a very strong bargaining position and distort investment incentives. Therefore …

distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm’s main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank’s portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …

distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm’s main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank’s portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …

researchers and regulators. Since poor bank governance is seen as a major cause of the recent crisis, a deeper understanding is … needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with … non-executive bank employees provided by an international consulting company. The results indicate that both aspects of …

is based on a large, unbalanced panel of German banks including 32,023 bank-year observations. We see an increase in the … asymmetries as well as banks' size and ownership structure. -- Bank regulation ; informational asymmetries ; risk provisioning …

. Furthermore, some of these fi ndings strongly depend on the bank’s legal form, its size and business model, suggesting that both …