Thesis advisor: Edith Hotchkiss / My dissertation focuses on how the way firms are funded, particularly in periods of financial distress, affects their employment and investment choices. It consists of three papers. The first paper studies how bank lending patterns change after a shock leads some firms to become non-viable. Banks will often continue to lend to poorly performing firms, but it is difficult to distinguish cases where they are lending to viable firms suffering a temporary setback or whether they are ”evergreening”, lending to nonviable firms to help them avoid or delay default. We use a shock to firm growth from the implementation of tolls in a previously free-to-use highway system to attempt to disentangle the two groups of firms. We find evidence more consistent with evergreening: once firms have received a loan in distressed circumstances, they are far more likely to receive a subsequent loan while remaining in a distressed situation. The second paper studies the composition of bank lending in Portugal during the sovereign debt crisis. We provide evidence that banks distort the composition of credit supply in order to comply with ratio-based capital requirements in times of economic distress. An unexpected intervention by the European Banking Authority provides a natural experiment to study how banks respond to falling below minimum required capital ratios during an economic downturn. We show that affected banks respond by cutting lending but also by reallocating credit to distressed firms with underreported loan losses. We develop a method to detect underreported losses using loan-level data. The credit reallocation leads to a reallocation of inputs across firms. We calculate that the resulting increase in input misallocation accounts for about 13\% of the decline in productivity in Portugal in 2012. The third paper uses US Census data to study the impact of private equity deals on employment. Private equity transactions are associated with employment reallocation and job losses (Davis et al. 2014, Olsson and Tag 2017, Arnold et al 2023). However, there is divergence around the role PE firms play in worker outcomes. In this paper we test three hypothesis for why workers are laid off after private equity buyouts: use of market power, breach of trust, and efficient reallocation. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Finance.

Zugl.: Zürich, Swiss Banking School, Diplomarbeit. / Literaturverz.

Zugl.: Eichstätt, Ingolstadt, Universiẗat, Diss.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 70-72).

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The author of the diploma thesis submits a treatise on the scope of contracts defined by the legal theory which are termed as bank contracts, or alternatively bank trades. In order to formulate the concept and the subject matter of such contracts with the adequate precision, the text of the diploma thesis comprises also a specification of other, yet close terms, the knowledge of which the author considers to be crucial for understanding the particular subject. Thus the author enables the reader who is acquainted with the law but does not specialize in commercial or financial law to familiarize with the submitted subject but also expresses his opinion concerning general necessity of defining particular concepts precisely and completely if these concepts are used to express subsequent concepts. While writing the diploma thesis the author tried to explain the indicated problems in the text wherever it was possible, and refers to general arrangement only where there was no other possibility owing to the extent and range of the work. The text is divided into five chapters. The first chapter, which is preceded by a standard introduction, deals with the bank. It is subdivided into ten smaller sections. The first four sections describe four basic attributes of the bank, namely the required legal form, the...

by Lau Sing-chiu Thomas. / "August 1999." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-74). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

The thesis is concerned with the actual topic -- market entry by new banks (Air Bank, Zuno Bank, Equa Bank) to the Czech banking market in 2011. The work analyses all reachable data, circumstances of their foundation, management structure, product offer and especially the chosen strategy. The whole topic is put in context of actual macroeconomic conditions, which have crucial importance on their functioning. Partial aim of the work is to define potential risks and weaknesses of these institutions and especially review the possible impact on the Czech banking sector. Part of the thesis also considers customer review of actual product offers from these new banks.

Given the high level of scrutiny on top executives in recent years, particularly those at banks, examining the impact of bank managers' ability on financial reporting is of great value. This paper builds on models of bank efficiency in the banking literature to derive a measure of bank managerial ability, and examines how bank managerial ability impacts the quality of accounting information related to unique bank accounting issues. I find evidence that higher ability managers do report higher quality accounting estimates for the allowance for loan losses and fair values of securities. Additionally, I identify two settings that affect the strength of the relation between bank managerial ability and accounting quality, the Financial Crisis and when capital ratios are binding. I find evidence that this relation is stronger during the recent Financial Crisis but is attenuated when capital ratios are binding. These findings should be of interest to investors, standard setters, and particularly bank regulators tasked with monitoring the stability of banks. / text