question, I use firm-level data and firm-bank linkages to estimate the causal effect of an imported lending cut from a large … German bank on firms' capital structure and real outcomes. The estimates imply that for every 1 euro reduction in debt …

bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining power with banks. In … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …

This paper presents evidence that personal relationships between corporate borrowers and bank loan officers improve the … outcomes of loan renegotiation. Analysing a bank reorganization in Greece in the mid-2010s, I find that firms that experience …

frictions in which bank assets are a portfolio of defaultable loans. We show that ex-ante imperfect diversification of bank … lending generates bank asset returns with limited upside but significant downside risk. The asymmetric distribution of these … returns and their implications for the evolution of bank net worth are important for capturing the frequency and severity of …

This paper presents new evidence on the importance of insolvency frameworks for private sector debt deleveraging and … for the resolution of non-performing loans (NPL). We construct an aggregate insolvency framework index (IFI), which is …, our results indicate that better insolvency frameworks lead to faster NPL reductions and to lower NPL increases during …