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Does Relationship Lending Require Opaque (and Conservative) Financial Reporting?

Bigus, Jochen; Hakenes, Hendrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

For many private firms, relationship lending is the only viable form of outside financing. Relationship lending typically relies on intertemporal loan pricing: losses from early years are recovered by information rents in later years, which stem from the lender's private information regarding...

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Collateral, Default Risk, and Relationship Lending: An Empirical Study on Financial Contracting

Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper provides new insights into the nature of relationship lending by analysing the role of collateral and its real effects with respect to workout activities. We use a unique data set based on the credit files of five leading German banks, thus relying on real information used in the...

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Real Effects of Bank Governance: Bank Ownership and Corporate Innovation

Haselmann, Rainer; Marsch, Katharina; Weder di Mauro, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper we analyze the impact of government and private ownership of banks on firms’ probability to innovate. We estimate firms’ decision to innovate and their selection of a main lender for a sample of 9000 German manufacturing companies. Since these two decisions may be...

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Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11?

Miller, Marcus; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

driving asset prices to ‘overshoot’ equilibrium when an asset bubble bursts - threatening widespread insolvency and what …

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Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms - Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries

Harhoff, Dietmar; Stahl, Konrad; Woywode, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

under limited liability should be characterized by higher than average insolvency and employment growth rates. We test these … characterized by higher growth and higher insolvency rates than comparable firms under full liability. Surprisingly, the likelihood … liquidation, while the propensity to insolvency is not affected by the owner’s age. The basic empirical results hold in pooled …

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Insolvency After the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

Albanesi, Stefania; Nosal, Jaromir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

, especially, the financial cost of filing for bankruptcy. We study the effects of the reform on bankruptcy, insolvency, and …. We find that the decline in bankruptcy filings resulted in a rise in the rate and persistence of insolvency as well as an … that insolvency is associated with worse financial outcomes than bankruptcy, as insolvent individuals have less access to …

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German Bank Lending During Financial Crises: A Bank Level Analysis

Heid, Frank; Nestmann, Thorsten; Von Westernhagen, Natalja - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set from the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending during financial crises in emerging markets. We find that German banks reacted to the...

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Multiple Lenders and Corporate Distress: Evidence on Debt Restructuring

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the common pool problem in multi-bank relationships has been analysed extensively. In this Paper we address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel dataset that includes detailed credit-fie information on distressed lending...

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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations

Peersman, Gert; Wagner, Wolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a...

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Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Rates in Low-Income Countries: Heterogeneous Panel Estimates

Mishra, Prachi; Montiel, Peter J; Pedroni, Peter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the transmission of monetary shocks to lending rates in a large sample of advanced, emerging, and low-income countries. Transmission is measured by the impulse response of bank lending rates to monetary policy shocks. Long-run restrictions are used to identify such shocks....

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