Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Outline contents -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Table of Legislation -- Part A Introduction -- 1 Sources of EU financial law -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 EU statutes and their hierarchy -- 1.2.1 The Treaties -- 1.2.2 Regulations and...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- I. Business Organization and Internal Governance -- 1. Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania in...

This study provides direct evidence of the value to banks arising from relationship lending by estimating the market premium placed on banking organizations' small business loan portfolios. Using data from the small business loan survey contained in the June bank Call Reports, we find that small...

Ensuring liquidity is critical for the functioning of banks. This study investigates the functional form of bank profitability and liquid asset holdings. We test for an inverted Kuznets curve-shaped quadratic polynomial relationship using generalized least square regression on an unbalanced...