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Russians’ "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs
(06.07.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2020
This article links Russians’ individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-Yeltsin years to the beliefs those same individuals espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on questions, some of which ...
How do individual politicians affect privatization? Evidence from China
(01.09.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 21/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 21/2020
This paper investigates how politicians’ patronage connections affect privatizations in China. The connections to top political leaders (i.e., Central Committee of the Communist Party of China) make local politicians engage ...
Volatility transmission and volatility impulse response functions in the main and the satellite Renminbi exchange rate markets
(06.10.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2020
We analyse volatility spillovers between the on- and offshore (CNY and CNH) Renminbi exchange rates towards the US dollar (USD). The volatility impulse response (VIRF) methodology introduced by Hafner and Herwatz (2006) ...
Grandparenting and well-being of the elderly in China
(09.08.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 18/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 18/2020
Grandparenting duties can affect the well-being of the elderly both positively and negatively. This paper disentangles the interactions between grandparenting, quality of life, and life satisfaction in China. Using a panel ...
Politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia : The case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
(29.01.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
This paper studies the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia focusing on the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It investigates what factors have accounted for the selection of the 2018 ...
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, ...
The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia
(14.12.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 26/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 26/2020
Enterprise creation, destruction, and evolution support the transition to modern economic growth, yet these processes are poorly understood in industrializing contexts. We investigate Imperial Russia’s industrial development ...
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 ...
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms
(20.04.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2021
This paper uses textual analysis to examine how European corporations assess sanctions in their annual reports. Using observations from a panel of almost 11,500 corporate annual reports from 2014–2017, we document significant ...