Corporate finance theories suggest that problems of asymmetric information and moral hazard in credit markets can be addressed by choosing short-term maturities. Theories of debt renegotiation suggest that the credibility of the implicit commitment to not make concessions to insolvent borrowers,...

This paper studies the quality of management of acquiring firms as an important determinant of merger and acquisition (M&A) success. We model management practices as an unobserved (latent) variable in a standard microeconomic model of the firm and derive firm-year management estimates therefrom....

Does population aging affect bank lending? To answer this question we exploit geographic variation in population aging across U.S. counties to provide the first evidence on its impact on bank risk-taking. We find that banks more exposed to aging counties experience deposit inflows due to...

Corporate taxation can have redistributive effects on income and wealth. We hypothesize and empirically establish such an effect working via bank credit. Using a unique sample of majority-owned firms that apply for credit, we show that after a decrease in corporate tax rates the relative-ly poor...

This paper employs a vector autoregressive (VAR) model that nests neural networks and uses Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) techniques. We use data information related to COVID-19, financial markets, and household finances. In this paper, we investigate whether COVID-19 impacts household finances,...

Ownership and competition in the banking sector are policy concerns around the world that are rarely comprehensively examined. For 131 countries and 13 years we match bank ownership with over 50,000 bank-year estimates of individual bank market power. At the individual bank level, ownership does...

We examine how U.S. monetary policy affects the international activities of U.S. Banks. We access a rarely studied US bank-level dataset to assess at a quarterly frequency how changes in the U.S. Federal funds rate (before the crisis) and quantitative easing (after the onset of the crisis)...

To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...

Poco se sabe todavía sobre los factores que determinan el uso de garantías personales en comparación con las garantías reales en el marco de los préstamos bancarios a empresas, así como sobre su posterior impacto en la toma de decisiones de las empresas. Este trabajo analiza 477.209...

SANFI Award to the best paper on Banking of the 26th Finance Forum, held in Santander on 5-6 July 2018 ; ¿Cuál es el impacto de los tipos de interés negativos en la oferta de crédito y en la asunción de riesgos por parte de los bancos? Para responder a esta pregunta estudiamos los cambios...