This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment …

dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find there is only a limited relationship between severance pay and …

that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

. Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between …. We also discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment …

This paper examines a much overlooked link between credit markets and formalization: since access to bank credit … bank credit is more widely available at lower cost; if so, well-functioning credit markets help foster formal employment at …

exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010 …-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank …

Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …