Corporate Governance by Banks in Transition Economies

In developed economies a consensus has evolved that banks should lend money to enterprises, not own them. Emerging economies face a different set of challenges which force us to reconsider the bank-enterprise relationship. In theory banks should play a key role in corporate governance. As a consequence, decision-makers in transition economies chose to emulate the German and Japanese models of bank-enterprise relationships. The empirical study presented here looks in detail at the Polish Enterpri