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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 ...
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 ...
Monetary policy shocks and peer-to-peer lending in China
(05.12.2019)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 23/2019
BOFIT Discussion Papers 23/2019
This paper studies monetary policy transmission in China’s peer-to-peer lending market. Using spectral measures of causality, we explore the impacts of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China’s P2P market interest rates ...
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 ...
Banking globalization, local lending, and labor market effects : Micro-level evidence from Brazil
(14.06.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2017
This paper estimates the effect of a foreign funding shock to banks in Brazil after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Our robust results show that bank-specic shocks to Brazilian parent banks negatively ...
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 ...
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 ...