This paper investigates the relationship between expansionary credit events and firms' employment decisions. To overcome the endogeneity coming from the supply side of credit we exploited the legal and political framework in Mexico to examine the effects of local governments' prepayment of...

Economic theory offers competing hypotheses about how the cost and availability of finance influence labor market outcomes. Making use of the U.S. banking reforms between the 1970s and the 1990s as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper studies the impact of credit market development on...