Using a rich sample of small and medium-sized European firms, we study how banks' lending technologies affected firms' export activities during the 2009 great trade collapse. We find that bank-firm relationships mitigated the contraction of firms' export by easing banks' access to inside, "soft"...

Using rich data from the Italian local credit markets (provinces), this paper investigates the impact of local banking development on income inequality and the role of the socioeconomic structure in this link. Exploiting the Italian historical banking regulation to instrument for the local...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of quot;informed financequot; on technological change. We argue that the theoretical literature offers conflicting predictions on whether the information of financiers fosters or impedes firms' innovation. Using data from a sample of Italian...

We study the impact of the concentration and complexity of the banking sector on firms' financing and investment behavior over the business cycle. We find that, after the late 1990s, while debt issuance remained procyclical for US firms of all sizes, equity issuance and liquidity accumulation...

This paper tests for the presence of a credit channel (particularly a bank-lending sub-channel) for monetary policy in the housing market. We argue that the importance of this channel for investment in residential housing is highly dependent on the structural features, and particularly the...

We study the impact of lenders' information sharing on credit market performance using contract-level data from a major U.S. credit bureau that serves the equipment finance industry. The staggered entry of lenders into the bureau, the richness of the data set (28,000 loans and leases extended to...