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 …

provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …

wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of …. -- Academic disciplines ; wage returns ; higher education ; Greece …

small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …

This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All … productivity as workers age. -- Payroll taxes ; Greece …

graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … premiums in the job market. -- Gender wage gap ; subject of degree ; returns ; risk ; Greece …