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Financing nascent industry : Leverage, politics, and performance in Imperial Russia
(08.03.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2020
This paper explores the dynamics of corporate finance during the early stages of industrial growth by examining a newly constructed panel database of Imperial Russian industrial corporations’ balance sheets. We document ...
The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms : Finance and politics
(15.12.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 27/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 27/2020
We investigate the influence of financial and political factors on peer-to-peer (P2P) platform failures in China’s online lending market. Using a competing risk model for platform survival, we show that large platforms, ...
Managerial and financial barriers to the net-zero transition
(17.05.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
We use data on 11,233 firms across 22 emerging markets to analyze how credit constraints and low-quality firm management inhibit corporate investment in green technologies. For identification we exploit quasi-exogenous ...
City commercial banks and credit allocation : Firm-level evidence
(09.03.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
This paper investigates how government-led banking liberalization affects credit allocation by banks using as a quasi-natural experiment the establishment of city commercial banks (CCBs) in China. Based on more than three ...
Banks vs. markets : Are banks more effective in facilitating sustainability?
(27.04.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2022
Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk? Using a novel sample covering 3,783 U.S. public firms from 2007 to 2020, we study how firm-level ...
Elections hinder firms’ access to credit
(09.02.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 3/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 3/2022
To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair ...
Spatial disparity of skill premium in China : The role of financial intermediation development
(13.07.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2022
In China, the relative wages of high-skilled and low-skilled workers display huge variation across different regions. We examine whether financial intermediation development can explain such variation. Conceptually, ...
Sex, language, and financial inclusion
(01.04.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 9/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 9/2020
Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and reinforce traditional views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the ...
State-business relations and access to external financing
(25.10.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2022
Firms' contractual relations with a state may give lenders a positive signal and facilitate access to debt. This paper studies the impact of public procurement contracts on firms' access to debt using an extensive survey ...
Regional favoritism in access to credit : just believe it
(21.03.2023)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 1/2023
BOFIT Discussion Papers 1/2023
ABSTRACT
We examine the effect of regional favoritism on the access of firms to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 47 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that firms in the birth ...