Does bank monitoring influence loan contract terms?

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-198

  Coleman, Anthony D F ^a   Esho, Neil ^a   Sharpe, Ian G ^a,b  

^a Policy Research and Statistics Division at the Australian   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bank monitoring; Lloan pricing; Loan maturity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845803119     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10693-006-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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