We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm …

contributes to the current debate on the optimal scope of bank activities, and highlights novel channels through which …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …

correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income -particularly for the pre-crisis period … markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking. Moreover, pre …

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …

opportunity for unlisted firms. Using the Italian Credit Register, we investigate the impact of minibond issuance on bank credit … conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms with new loans … concurrently granted to similar non-issuer firms. We find that issuer firms obtain lower interest rates on bank loans of the same …

lower interest rates on bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining … power with banks. Issuer firms also reduce the amount of used bank credit, expand their total and fixed assets, and raise …