context, this study examines the role of political connections in the Indian context to understand their impact on firms …? Second, do political connections explain the extent of technology transfer through backward, forward, and horizontal … connections literature in the emerging markets context. It is the first to study technology transfer and political connections …

' political connections in India. Leveraging this data along with a long panel of detailed financial transactions of firms, we … study how political connections matter during an economic downturn. Using a synthetic difference-in-differences framework … method to determine political connections is portable to other applications and contexts. …

hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …

We study a connections model where the strength of a link depends on the amount invested in it and is determined by an …

We use new data on political connections from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to examine the impact of connections on …, Jordan, and Lebanon). In addition to political connections, we construct several measures of "political influence" based on … available data on lobbying and grand corruption. We also explore whether political connections help firms overcome barriers to …