We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is … randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to … study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations causally affects the borrowing decisions of Italian firms. We …

the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of the investment climate varies across sizes of firms. The … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials …

wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female …-representation of women at the top: for example, if women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker …

companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985 …-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before and after the crises is investigated and the speed of adjustment toward the …

to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … firms from developed market economies, thus providing a set of natural benchmarks. We find substantial evidence of …

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U … in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm to one of constrained managerial discretion. In competitive and … evolving nonunion governance norms …

surveys. Our results shed new light on the importance of life-course transitions and their gender-heterogeneous effects as key …

This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and the role of connections in … discriminating against women. The results suggest that gender of the committee members, network structure and type of recruitment … crucial for addressing gender bias in research …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …