This paper analyses the impact of the gender of the loan officer-borrower pair on the loan-size, credit availability and time spent in managing the credit application. By using 3,020 lending transactions from Ecuador during 2016-2019, we document that the loan officer-borrower pair gender drives...

This accessible introduction to the world economy and to the theory and practice of globalization argues that key topics in international economics cannot be understood without knowledge of international business, and vice versa. It reviews and combines insights from both literatures and applies...