This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...

Ansätze, Stile und Schubladen -- Volker Schilling und Dirk Sammüller -- Peter E. Huber -- Luca Pesarini -- Dr. Jens Ehrhardt -- Dr. Markus Stahl -- Martin Mack -- Dr. Heinz-Werner Rapp -- Hans-Olov Bornemann -- Markus Mezger -- Felix Zulauf -- Christoph Metzger -- Exkurs: Finanzmärkte und...

We investigate the impact of credit market deepening on innovation, considering the role of investment risk and investment potential in the context of Russian regions, analysing the panel time series data extracted from the Federal Statistics Department of the Russian Federation and using the...

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to repay group micro-finance loans using survival analysis and hazard decomposition techniques. We also control for the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the time needed by micro-finance loan borrowers to repay. We use a large...

Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...