We test whether the use of bank debt as a governance mechanism is conditioned by the financial system in which firms operate. Our results indicate that the legal and institutional environment determines the use of bank debt to finance growth opportunities. Firms use bank debt to finance their...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine whether bank debt‐maturity decisions are conditioned by growth opportunities, the firms’ ownership structure, or the institutional environment. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis is undertaken using an unbalanced panel data of...

We employ a Bayesian estimation technique to construct firm-varying investment-cash flow sensitivities (ICFS) for a sample of 90 Spanish listed firms over a 10-year period (1999-2008). Then we analyze which variables are associated with the firm-level ICFS-estimates both univariately and...

We develop a model of neural networks to study the bankruptcy of U.S. banks. We provide a new model to predict bank defaults some time before the bankruptcy occurs, taking into account the specific features of the current financial crisis. Based on data from the Federal Deposit Insurance...

We analyze the mutual relations among firms' capital structure, ownership structure and valuation. Through the estimation of a system of simultaneous equations for a sample of 1,130 firms from 16 countries from both the common law and the civil law environments, our results confirm the...

En el presente trabajo estudiamos la influencia sobre la performance de las empresas cotizadas españolas entre 2007 y 2009 del número de consejos de administración a que pertenecen sus consejeros independientes. Nuestros resultados ponen de manifiesto una relación no lineal como consecuencia...

The purpose of this work is to verify the existence of financial constraints for investment in Brazil, an emerging market with growing international visibility. Using panel data methodology and GMM, we estimate dynamic investment models based on the Euler equation and Tobin's q for a panel...

We analyze the influence of firm ownership structure on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as measured by the Dow Jones Sustainability STOXX Index and the Ethibel Excellence Index. Using data from 1,248 firms from five major European Union countries (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy,...