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 …

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of … banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We … find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders - relative to those of other banks - significantly more when they …

analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom data with information on their lender banks. We identify a shock …

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 …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …