To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using … firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair access to credit …. Specifically, firms are more credit-constrained in election years and pre-election years as elections exacerbate political …

To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using … firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair access to credit …. Specifically, firms are more credit-constrained in election years and pre-election years as elections exacerbate political …

for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with … the first phase of 200 most backward districts in India. Two more consecutive phases were implemented to cover all rural … regions in India but, even after almost 6 years of its implementation, it has not been adequately analyzed for its effect on …

Voters punish incumbent Presidential candidates for contractions in the local (county-level) supply of mortgage credit … during market-wide contractions of credit, but they do not reward them for expansions in mortgage credit supply in boom times … underwriting standards to a severe contraction of mortgage credit. Voters responded to the credit crunch by shifting their support …

connected on both access and cost-of-credit obtained from formal financial institutions. Controlling for unobserved time …-invariant firm-level heterogeneity, productivity self-selection concerns, and access to alternative credit markets, we show that … political connections decreases the likelihood of being credit-constrained by 4 percentage points. Moreover, politically …