, we examine whether bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and entry have "external" effects on small business loans by …

This paper studies the effect of book versus fair value accounting on a bank's (re)investment behavior, risk of default …

banks that hold information on credit risks. These relative advantages may generate incentives for a foreign bank to … negotiate acquisition of a domestic bank in order to capture information endowments. However, if it is difficult to assess the … value of information held by banks, the foreign bank will face important choices about the optimal mode of entry and what …

interactions between bank loans and stock prices and evaluate whether bank loans play a role in transmitting financial shocks to … the real sector. We find evidence that bank loans react positively to the increase in stock prices but there seems to be … no influence from bank loans to stock prices. Similarly, bank loans seem to accommodate expansion in real output with …

about individuals if they are “near” the bank and individuals incur in a cost proportional to this distance to show the … viability of their projects to the bank. A free entry model is constructed to account for banks’ tendency to concentrate in rich …

The transmission process from policy-controlled interest rates to bank lending rates deserves reconsideration owing to …

mechanism emanating from bank markups that would entail an amplification of macroeconomic fluctuations. But also the evidence …