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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 ...
Crony banking and local growth in China
(12.05.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2017
The rise of city commercial banks (CCBs) in Chinese cities provides a unique opportunity to study the finance and growth nexus at the city level. Given the notorious inefficiency of China's “Big Four” state banks, policymakers ...
Natural resources and capital structure
(29.08.2016)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2016
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2016
This paper examines the effect of natural resources on capital structure of the firm. Using an extensive dataset of listed firms in 70 countries, we show that firms operating in resource extraction industries have less ...
Oil price collapse and firm leverage in resource-dependent countries
(26.04.2018)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2018
BOFIT Discussion Papers 10/2018
This study examines the financial channel between oil price volatility and the resource curse using firm-level data. A collapse in oil prices adversely affects firm borrowing in resource-dependent countries. However, unlike ...
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 ...
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 ...