This paper is about the importance of the information in Public Credit Registries (PCRs) for supporting and improving banking sector regulation and supervision, particularly in the light of the new approach embodied in Basel III. Against the backdrop of the financial crisis and the existence of...

Die Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des Wirtschaftspolitischen Ausschusses im Verein für Sozialpolitik hat ihre Jahrestagung 2010 der Frage "Reform der Finanzmarktregulierung" gewidmet. Der vorliegende Band, der von Prof. Peter Oberender (Universität Bayreuth) herausgegeben wird, setzt seinen...

This paper examines the sensitivity of firms´ R&D expenditures to being externally financial constrained to undertake innovation projects, considering that being constrained is endogenous. It focuses on devising a model that enable us to explore the combined impact of liquidity constraints,...

The nexus between corporate disclosure and credit market development as well as whether the nexus is sensitive to the income classification of countries is not well delineated in the empirical literature. The objective of this paper is to interrogate these issues. In addressing these important...

The lead arrangers of syndicated loans often have lending relationships with the borrowers, while other lenders participating in the syndicate largely engage in an arm's length transaction. Relatively little is known about how these relationships affect the shares of syndicated loans that the...

This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers' screening efforts. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, the study finds that competing lenders responded to additional loan approvals by issuing approvals of their own....

This paper studies loan conditions in a context where private banks can operate in two credit markets: a free-market with no government intervention and an earmarked market that relies on government funds and where interest rates are regulated. The paper examines the effects of earmarked lending...