This study examines a novel form of debt financing – sustainability linked loans (SLL). SLLs are obtained by companies …

monetary transmission processes of Islamic and conventional banks using disaggregated bank-level data for Saudi Arabia over the … to various shocks make it easier for the Saudi central bank to achieve macroeconomic goals through monetary policy …

This paper investigates how bank CEO risk-taking incentives influence bank lending decisions. Consistent with the … standards in bank loan contracts to pursue higher compensation. We find that banks with a high vega tend to charge a … create an agency problem between a bank manager and shareholders …

Whether the bank-firm relationship and political connections are the substitutes, or the complements is the well …-researched question on an empirical research level on credit availability. This paper studies the influences of the bank-firm relationship …-sized enterprises (SMEs). The results indicate that there is a complementary link between the bank-firm relationship (length of …

This study examines the relationship between corporate philanthropy (CP) and firm access to bank loans using a sample … of listed Chinese companies. We find a positive association between CP and access to bank loans, suggesting that … positive association between CP and bank loans while more visibility among investors weakens the positive association. We also …

stability. Compared to bank business groups, we find that bank mergers' market power produces a contraction in credit supply …