This study examines whether the effect of private equity (PE) investments persists over time or wears off after the PE investors exit. Unlike previous studies that focus on the PE-backed initial public offerings (IPOs), we constructed a unique and distinctive dataset comprising PE investments...

This article empirically investigates the relationship between interbank competition, bank orientation and credit availability for a sample of more than 30 000 loans granted by a large banking group operating in the Italian credit market. We test whether and how, during a credit crunch period,...