This paper studies whether and how banks’ technological innovations affect the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission. We first provide a theoretical model in which banks' technological innovation relaxes firms’ earning-based borrowing constraints and thereby enlarges the...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...

In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...