We studied information and interaction processes in six lending relationships between a universal bank and medium sized firms. The study is based on the credit files of the respective firms. If no problems occur in these lending relationships, bank monitoring is based mainly on cheap,...

This study applies Real Options Theory to banking in the environment of actively traded Philippine Universal Banks. These banks exist in an environment of imperfect information with regard to lending, and a country where credit scarcity impedes the growth and performance of entrepreneurial...

Going public, as one of the most important events during a firm's life cycle, may influence bank monitoring through a few channels. First, going public improves information transparency of the IPO firm and reduces lender-borrower information asymmetry, thereby lowering the demand of bank...

According to conventional wisdom, banks play a special role in providing liquidity in bad times, while capital markets are used to fund investment in good times. Using micro-data on corporate balance sheets following the COVID-19 shock, we provide evidence that instead, the corporate bond market...

The availability of bank lending and corporate bond markets underwent a drastic change in the eurozone with the break out of the financial crisis. To quantify the relation between the two, this paper empirically tests the role of bank lending tightening on non-financial corporate (NFC) bond...