Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of … banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We … find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders - relative to those of other banks - significantly more when they …

hypothesis. Even after controlling for other factors, firms affiliated to business associations are more likely to secure bank … domestic and foreign banks, as these new banks attempt to minimize costs of adverse selection. Networking however discriminates … against the small and medium sized firms' access to bank loans in the CEE regions. Results are robust in both single cross …

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments …

We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …