Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna; Stiefel, Michael - 2021 - This version: December 2020, first version: August 2019
The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking...