Financial Statements as Monitoring Mechanisms: Evidence from Small Commercial Loans
Using a data set that records banks’ ongoing requests of information from small commercial borrowers, we examine when banks use financial statements to monitor borrowers after loan origination. We find that banks request financial statements for half the loans and this variation is related to borrow...
Main Authors: | , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
Published: |
Wiley Blackwell
2017
|
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109261 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2517-1685 |