banks. This suggests that the ability and willingness of the bank to punish the firm for misbehaving play an important role …

. These findings suggest that the bank supply shock theory helps to understand the transmission channel of shocks from the …, firms with strong dependence on bank financing suffer higher increases in default risk than firms with no such dependence … financial sector to the real economy. Finally, bank-dependent firms cannot completely offset adverse impacts stemming from bank …

bank-firm CDS net notional and credit exposures we find that the probability of default for CDS firms drops when the effect …

bank-firm CDS net notional and credit exposures we find that the probability of default for firms with CDS traded on them …

value ratio, credit history and borrower's type (whether borrower receives income in that bank). Average prediction accuracy … by the National Bank of Georgia to estimate the adequacy of loan loss provisions, to assess commercial banks credit …

This study investigates the inter-relationship between audit committee effectiveness, bank efficiency and risk … relation. Our results show that audit committee effectiveness reduces bank risk-taking through increasing bank efficiency. This … literature the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and bank risk-taking by examining the mechanism behind this …

Surveys of bank efficiency intrinsically draw conclusions based on the assumption that all banks in a sample use the … efficiency estimates by assigning incorrectly these deviations as inefficiency. We approach these consideration by estimating the … model by using data of the Greek banking sector for the period 1993-2008.Our results reveal that the Greek bank …