We combine recent findings from the empirical banking literature with established insights
from studies of banking competition and regulation. Motivated by modern theory of financial …

This paper empirically examines how capital affects a bank's performance (survival and
market share) and how this effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal …

Abstract Research Summary Extant research offers conflicting views about the size and
nature of gender‐related disparities in venture financing and venture performance. We …

Corporate governance has received much attention in recent years, partly due to the Asian
financial crisis. We review the literature on corporate governance issues in Asia to develop …

During the 1997 Korean financial crisis, firms with higher ownership concentration by
unaffiliated foreign investors experienced a smaller reduction in their share value. Firms that …

This article examines the issue of cross-sectional correlation in event studies. When there is
event-date clustering, we find that even relatively low cross-correlation among abnormal …

We quantify the role of financial leverage behind the sluggish post-crisis investment
performance of European firms. We use a cross-country firm-bank matched database to …

Modern Banking focuses on the theory and practice of banking, and its prospects in the new
millennium. The book is written for courses in banking and finance at Masters/MBA level, or …

This paper shows that the collapse of the global market for syndicated loans during financial
crises can in part be explained by a flight home effect whereby lenders rebalance their loan …

This book provides a compendium to the empirical work investigating the hypotheses
generated by recent banking theory. Such a compendium is overdue. Since the publication …