Li, Xuchao; Shao, Xiang; Shen, Guangjun; Zou, Jingxian - 2023
Can bank competition help attenuate the prevalence of zombie firms? Motivated by a stylized model, this paper studies … the effect of bank competition on the formation of zombie firms in two stages: the formation of distressed firms and … finds that bank competition lowers the probability of the formation of distressed firms, while it increases the probability …