credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and … acquiring external know-how. We find no evidence that bank credit also stimulates firm innovation through in-house R&D. This …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

.Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between January 1993 …

cycle comovement increases when credit embodies public bonds held by banks, a bank financing to the public sector. However …, in the post ]WWII era, this financial backup to the public side of the economy has occurred at the expense of bank …

', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for bank recovery and for competitiveness and growth. The second …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

rate of growth of capital asset or income whether source of borrowing is bank or money lender. This is then formalized in a …