The microeconomic drivers of medium- and short-term income mobility in Russia over the period 1996-2016 are investigated using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). Focusing on the role of access to credit in triggering household income growth, the descriptive analysis...

Using panel firm-level data, this paper analyses the main factors affecting firms' access to bank credit in eleven Euro Area countries over the period 2014-2016. We focus on firm's loan demand behaviour and on bank's actual credit granting decision, using alternative measures of credit...