We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We …-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank(s …), we find that increases in Italian banks' CDS spreads and decreases in their equity valuations lead younger and smaller …

the data is that it records detailed information for 12 electronics sub-sectors covering both manufacturing and services …

hold for computers, but not in most other settings. Features of state law also favor high rates of inter-firm mobility in …

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect … effects of using computers to look up information and negative effects of using computers to practice skills, resulting in …

computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …

technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital …

differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …