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 …

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers, this study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … instrumental variables estimates show that in the medium run, firms' adoption of complex software affects firms' employment … decisions and the skill content of occupations. The adoption of complex software reallocates employment from skilled workers to …

-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …

well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme impact is assessed on a wide range of monetary and nonmonetary …

Using a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh, we to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for specific job …