Nguyen, Hien - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper analyzes the impact of US firms’ equity risk on bank lending standards and on the macroeconomy for two … groups: small and medium-large firms. The results indicate that a higher level of firm risk leads to a higher percentage of …-large firms. The finding provides support for the Risk Management Hypothesis, under which banks decrease lending to risky …