In this paper, we investigate the damage to real-sector investment spending and corporate financing activities … triggered by the failure of three major investment banks during the 2007-09 financial crisis. We find that firms characterized … by pre-crisis corporate investment banking relationships with troubled investment banks exhibit significantly lower post …

It is well understood that investment serves as a shock absorber at the time of crisis. The duration of the drag on … investment, however, is perplexing. For the nine Asian economies we focus on in this study, average investment/GDP is about 6 … markedly as public and private sectors look inward when external financing becomes prohibitively costly, altogether impossible …

significant challenges that the international community faces in fragile contexts: how to provide the right financing. The paper … summarises new and emerging instruments and approaches in financing stability and resilience, and points to some of the gaps and …, the paper is complemented by separate guidance on financing strategies: approaches to better align financing to support …