Jiménez, Gabriel; Lopez, Jose A.; Saurina, Jesús - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2007
. Section II provides a short literature review,
highlighting empirical studies that informed our choice of explanatory …-section of firms and a longer time period than these
prior studies. In addition, the structure of the CIR database allows us to …,977 firms by 407
banks over a twenty year period. This dataset is a clear improvement over previous studies
since it is not …