This paper studies the effects of the bank capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in October 2011 on … granted by a representative Spanish bank and several subsidiaries to nonfinancial corporations around that date. We document …

been considered as explanatory variables. Moreover, bank size has been used as a control variable in this study … pooled regression analysis revealed that bank performance is inversely affected by the credit risk management and … capitalization contributes positively in bank performance …

equity invested in small enterprises makes them more dependent on other external sources (e.g. bank loans, overdraft …