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The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms
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Description| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Author(s) | Elisabeth Paulet |
| Subtitle | The Case of the Credit Mobilier |
| Published | 24th April 2016 |
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The Case of the Credit Mobilier
This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the role of universal banks in relaxing the credit constraints of firms, supervising managers and stabilizing share prices. The key issues is whether the Anglo-American asset based financing is more efective than the main-bank approach used in Germany and Japan. Earlier studies have found that firms with a close relationship with a major bank have high market value compared to book value, although it is difficult to determine whether this is cause or effectTranslation missing: en.general.search.loading