market access. In particular, such politically induced barriers are different national supervision of banks, different tax … strategies of European banks. The analysis is based both on aggregate sectoral data and on four company case studies (BSCH …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore new banks ' market niche position choices at the time of founding … ample opportunities for new bank start-ups. Findings: New banks were found to enter more often in specialist market niches … specialist banks in the market increased. Originality/value: The findings confirm the idea that elements of market structure …

analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom data with information on their lender banks. We identify a shock …