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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Minnis, Michael, Sutherland, Andrew Gordon
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
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