crisis. Overall, my results suggest that fair value disclosures in bank loan portfolios contain relatively less information …

In this study, we use bank loan information to construct proxies for corporate transparency and examine whether these … bank loans of all publicly listed firms on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, covering January 2008 to June 2013. We find that …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …