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Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis
Pagano, Marco; Panetta, Fabio; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
finance subsequent investment and growth, but to reduce leverage, (iv) going public reduces the cost of bank credit; (v) it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244375
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Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis
Pagano, Marco - 1995
finance subsequent investment and growth, but to reduce leverage, (iv) going public reduces the cost of bank credit; (v) it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473502
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2000
To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit the well-known differences in social capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and firms. In areas of the country with high levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471212
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit the well-known differences in social capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and firms. In areas of the country with high levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763754
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Trusting the Stock Market
Guiso, Luigi - 2005
We provide a new explanation to the limited stock market participation puzzle. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated. The perception of this risk is a function not only of the objective characteristics of the stock, but also of the subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467028
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760665
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2006
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466164