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Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital

Boissel, Charles; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the 2013 three-fold increase in the French dividend tax rate. Using administrative data covering the universe of firms from 2008-2017 and a quasi-experimental setting, we find that firms swiftly cut dividend payments and used this tax-induced increase in liquidity to...

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The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German Hyperinflation

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Correia, Sergio A.; Luck, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how a large increase in the price level is transmitted to the real economy through firm balance sheets. Using newly digitized macro- and micro-level data from the German inflation of 1919-1923, we show that inflation led to a large reduction in real debt burdens and...

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The Macroeconomics of Trade Credit

Bocola, Luigi; Bornstein, Gideon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In most countries, suppliers of intermediate goods and services are also the main providers of short-term financing to firms. This paper studies the macroeconomic implications of these financial links. In our model, trade credit is the outcome of a long-term contract between firms linked in the...

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Bankruptcy and Small Firms' Access to Credit

Berkowitz, Jeremy - 2002

In this paper, we investigate how personal bankruptcy law affects small firms' access to credit. When a firm is unincorporated, its debts are personal liabilities of the firm's owner, so that lending to the firm is legally equivalent to lending to its owner. If the firm fails, the owner has an...

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Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

Blanchflower, David G. - 1998

This paper uses data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to determine the extent to which minority-owned small businesses face constraints in the credit market beyond those faced by white-owned small businesses. First, we present qualitative evidence indicating that black-...

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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan

Uchida, Hirofumi - 2007

Current theoretical and empirical research suggests that small banks have a comparative advantage in processing soft information and delivering relationship lending. The most comprehensive analysis of this view found using U.S. data that smaller SMEs borrow from smaller banks and smaller banks...

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Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cull, Robert - 2005

We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. Although these intermediaries...

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Does Financing Spur Small Business Productivity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Krishnan, Karthik - 2014

We analyze how increased access to financing affects firm total factor productivity (TFP) by exploiting a natural experiment following interstate banking deregulations which increased access to bank financing. We find that firms' TFP increases after their states implement these deregulations....

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Economic Growth and Bank Innovation

Gorton, Gary; He, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

since the mid-1930s when banks invented the term loan. Concurrently, bank innovation first involved the invention of credit … analysis and covenant design. Later, bank innovation included the advent of loan sales, increased loan syndications, the … calibrate a model of bank innovation to determine the quantitative contribution of bank innovation to economic growth …

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