In this paper we study the specialization of Spanish banks along two intertwined dimensions: size and ownership form. We find some interesting results at odds with the existing empirical literature. As commercial banks increase their size, they lend more to large borrowers but that is not the...

This paper investigates the relationship between credit market competition and the availability of bank credit for firms of unobserved credit quality when firms pledge collateral to secure the loans. Loan data from the Spanish Credit Register shows that the average credit quality of borrowers...

The paper sets an accounting and behavioral framework from which we derive a reduced-form equation to test income smoothing and capital management practices through loan loss provisions (PLL) by Spanish banks. Spain offers a unique environment to perform those tests because there are very...

El trabajo analiza los determinantes de la ratio de morosidad en la deuda bancaria empresarial en España durante el período 1992-2003, estudiando los factores que explican la entrada y salida de las empresas en la situación de mora en el pago de la deuda bancaria, y los factores que explican...

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...

Los bancos españoles tuvieron que realizar provisiones estadísticas contracíclicas en el período 2000-2004. Los bancos tenían que comunicar los importes de dichas provisiones al mercado. Esto crea un experimento natural que permite testar si los bancos suavizan el resultado para despistar a...

Este trabajo presenta evidencia de la participación del trabajo, del capital y de los beneficios en el valor añadido de las empresas no financieras de Francia, Alemania, Italia, España y Estados Unidos entre 1995 y 2016, tratando de explicar las diferencias entre países y su evolución en el...