who value private benefits more choose banks while the rest choose venture capital. Thus, bank-financed entrepreneurs …

the bank resolution policy adopted during the crisis. The paper focuses on three issues: the causes and consequences of … the financial crisis, the policy response concerning bank resolution, and the applicability of the Swedish model of bank …

use. We use a dataset of 564 bank loans on French firms, which contains the full information on type and value of …

interest to the risk free level. However, because of competition for funds, the chosen architecture is not complete and does …

banks are capable of absorbing losses in the event that a bank is unable to support itself in the private market.” Amongst … constitutes a means whereby losses could still be absorbed in the event that a bank is unable to support itself in the private …

-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. To address this question we use a … sample of over 24,000 banks from more than 100 countries. We begin by estimating the probability that a bank will be a M …&A target; this probability is based upon both bank specific and country specific characteristics. The sample also naturally …

foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …," domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …