We provide measures of absolute and relative equity agency costs for corporations under
different ownership and management structures. Our base case is Jensen and Meckling's (…

In this article, I examine the effect of pre-existing relationships between a firm and its potential
lender on the potential lender's decision whether or not to extend credit to the firm. I find …

The informational opacity of small businesses makes them an interesting area for the study
of banks' lending practices and procedures. We use data from a survey of small businesses …

… the bank and thrift failures of the 1980s and early 1990s—eg, Cole and Fenn (2008) for
commercial banks and Cole (1993) and Cole et al. (1995b) for thrift institutions—that show how …

… Cole and Jakimik also observed faster reaction times to mispronounced words that were
implied in … Cole, RA Listening for mispronunciations: A measure of what we hear during speech. …

We identify and analyze a sample of publicly traded Chinese firms that issued loan guarantees
to their related parties (usually the controlling block holders), thereby expropriating …

On-site examinations are regulators' primary tool for monitoring the financial condition of
federally insured depository institutions. In this paper, we assess the speed with which the …

Neuron, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte cultures which were established from developing
rat brain were examined for their utlization of glucose, ketone bodies, and free fatty acids by …

Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts that are 200 bp or longer, do
not encode proteins, and potentially play important roles in eukaryotic gene regulation. …

We use a split-population survival-time model to separate the determinants of bank failure
from the factors influencing the survival time of failing banks. Basic indicators of a bank's …