This paper examines the effect of organizational distance (i.e. distance between the headquarters of the bank that grants a loan and the location of the borrower) on the use of collateral for business loans by Spanish banks on the basis of the recent lender-based theory of collateral [Inderst,...

In this paper, we analyze the existence of firm owned export channels as a response to the firm's specificities. The different theories justifying the internalization of such channels have shown, as well, that the larger the amount of exports the more likely the firm will establish its own...

This paper investigates the selection of governance forms in interfirm collaborations taking into account the predictions from transaction costs and property rights theories. Transaction costs agurments are often used to justify the introduction of hierarchical controls in collaborations, but...

Este trabajo documenta el comportamiento agregado de las empresas no financieras en las principales economías de la zona del euro y lo compara con el de Estados Unidos a partir de la información de las Cuentas Nacionales Sectoriales y las Cuentas Financieras. Encontramos diferencias muy...

Este estudio analiza la evolucion de la estructura financiera de la empresa manufacturera española en el periodo 83-89 a partir de una muestra de 670 empresas de la Central de Balances del Banco de España. El analisis de las posibles diferencias por tamaños de empresas evidencia: (1) una...

This paper investigates the existence and determinants of interest rates dispersion in loans and deposits of Spanish banks. A unique feature of the research is that it covers a whole industry (thirty products and two hundred banks) from 1989 to 2003. We find that: i) interest rates dispersion is...