The critical role played by financial institutions in the recent financial crises has generated renewed interest on the corporate finance of the banking firm and the impact of the banking sector on the real economy. This paper introduces the special issue of the Review of Financial Studies...

Using panel data on top management characteristics and a management quality factor constructed using common factor analysis on individual management quality measures, we analyze the relation between top firm management quality and corporate innovation inputs and outputs. We show that top...

We analyze the relationship between greater bank competition and the screening of potential borrowers. Using a large sample of Chinese private firms and China's entry into the WTO as a natural experiment, we find the following. First, the sensitivity of bank credit to prior borrowing-firm...

We analyze how the product market competition shock due to China’s WTO entry affects local US banks heterogeneously. Using a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we document that in regions with greater exposure to the shock, loan quality deteriorates and bank profitability declines...