This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the matching of banks and firms in the loan
market and the implications of this matching for lending relationships, bank capital, and …

We are the first to examine the impact of gender diversity on banks' boards on the probability
and size of public bailouts. Our findings, based on a sample of listed European banks over …

We provide evidence that creditors play an active role in the governance of corporations well
outside of payment default states. By examining the Securities and Exchange Commission's …

Firms sharing a board member with a media company receive more news coverage. This in
turn affects those firms' financing choices: they issue more bonds, rely less on bank loans …

Using a large sample of bank loans issued to US firms between 1990 and 2004, we find that
lower takeover defenses (as proxied by the lower G-index of Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick …

This paper extends the work of Balachandran and Faff (2015) and reviews the literature on
effective governance, financial markets, institutions, and crises. Specifically, we discuss the …

Extant literature suggests that bank monitoring improves corporate governance. This paper
demonstrates that inefficiency in banking can also significantly reduce the equity capital …

Using a sample of non-US borrowers from 40 countries during 1997 through 2005, this
paper investigates the effect of the voluntary adoption of International Financial Reporting …

This study uses covenant violations to provide evidence on how firms make disclosure
decisions in the presence of enhanced bank monitoring. Using a regression discontinuity …

We provide the first large‐scale empirical evidence of banks functioning as tax planning
intermediaries. We posit that some banks specialize in assisting corporate clients with tax …