This paper provides a review of the recent financial institution mergers and acquisition
(M&A) literature covering over 150 studies. Several robust themes emerge in the post-2000 …

The “conventional wisdom” in academic and policy circles argues that, while large and
foreign banks are generally not interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an …

Small and medium-sized enterprises, in aggregate, are the biggest employer in most
countries, accounting for about two thirds of all employment in the UK, and an even greater …

This paper provides new evidence on the benefits of local banking. Relying on a unique
bank-level lending dataset covering 96 French counties from 2005 to 2013, completed by …

Purpose The reason for concern is the rapid decline in loans to small enterprises which is
critical to their performance, compared to large businesses following the periods of banking …

In the early 1990s, a widely shared opinion among scholars and practitioners was that the
importance of physical proximity between banks and borrowers would be doomed to …

In this study we investigate whether and to what extent social capital may affect regional
innovation by focusing on private firms in the United States. We document that regional …

This paper provides an empirical examination of the regional banking structures in C hina
and their effects on entrepreneurial activity. Using a panel of 27 provinces and four directly …

The contemporary lower middle class, as constituted in the Tea Party movement, holds
increasingly unfavorable views of government, especially among exurban whites, based on …

Using the staggered adoption of US state-level pay transparency laws that improve pay
transparency, we find that the probability of high-wage workers becoming entrepreneurs …