| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w8694 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 8694 |
| Throwing Good Money After Bad? Board Connections and Conflicts in Bank Lending | |
| Randall S. Kroszner; Philip E. Strahan | |
| 发表日期 | 2001-12-20 |
| 出版年 | 2001 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates the frequency of connections between banks and non-financial firms through board linkages and whether those connections affect lending and borrowing behavior. Although a board linkages may reduce the costs of information flows between the lender and borrower, a board linkage may generate pressure for special treatment of a borrower not normally justifiable on economic grounds. To address this issue, we first document that banks are heavily involved in the corporate governance network through frequent board linkages. Banks tend to have larger boards with a higher proportion of outside directors than non- financial firms, and bank officer-directors tend to have more external board directorships than executives of non- financial firms. We then show that low- information cost firms -- large firms with a high proportion of tangible assets and relatively stable stock returns -- are most likely to have board connections to banks. These same low- information cost firms are also more likely to borrow from their connected bank, and when they do so the terms of the loan appear similar to loans to unconnected firms. In contrast to studies of Mexico, Russia and Asia where connections have been misused, our results suggest that avoidance of potential conflicts of interest explains both the allocation and behavior of bankers in the U.S. corporate governance system. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics ; Corporate Finance |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8694 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566301 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Randall S. Kroszner,Philip E. Strahan. Throwing Good Money After Bad? Board Connections and Conflicts in Bank Lending. 2001. |
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