If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

The Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure foresees that the information on the environmental effects of a specific activity are used to support the decision on whether to give a project consent, and has the ability to ensure no more than that the decision taken is an informed one. As...