the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …

banks to form alliances with fintechs. Furthermore, we analyze whether such bank-fintech alliances affect the market … Officer. We evidence that markets react more strongly if digital banks rather than traditional banks announce a bank …-fintech alliance. Finally, we find that alliances are most often characterized by a product-related collaboration between the bank and …

How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending …

, small, and innovative firms) have a multitude of bank lenders, where one may be special in the sense of relationship lending …. However, theory does not tell us a lot about the economic rationale for relationship lending in the context of multiple bank … financing. To fill this gap, we analyze the optimal debt structure in a model that allows for multiple but asymmetric bank …

knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …

? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Vladimiro Montesinos systematically …

Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did …

out in registered firms, employees are off the books. Peru's relentless informal employment and its unprecedented trade …

This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these …

We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences …