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Viitteet 11-20 / 20
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 ...
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 ...
Herding behaviour in P2P lending markets
(14.11.2019)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2019
BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2019
We explore individual lender behaviour on Renrendai.com, a leading Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) crowdlending platform. Using a sample of roughly 5 million investor-loan-hour observations and applying a high-dimension fixed ...
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 ...