lower interest rates on bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining … power with banks. Issuer firms also reduce the amount of used bank credit, expand their total and fixed assets, and raise …

bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining power with banks. In … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …

empirical support. We conclude that bank equity is not socially expensive, and that high leverage at the levels allowed, for …

We investigate the effect of managerial incentives and market power on bank risk-taking for a sample of 212 large US … bank holding companies over 1997-2004 (i.e. 1,534 observations). Bank managers have incentives to prefer less risk while … bank shareholders have preference for ‘excessive' risk. Likewise, the market power is the centre piece of any bank …

Bank of Scotland with those at non-ailing banks in the UK; the other compares remuneration policies at UBS and Credit …

a broad panel of large US bank holding companies over the period 1997–2011, we find that both board size and independent … directors decrease bank performance. Although gender diversity improves bank performance in the pre-Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX … other sensitivity checks including alternative proxies for bank performance …