A growing empirical literature finds that the allocation of credit across firms is as important as its total volume for economic performance. This paper investigates the process through which credit is reallocated across US businesses employing the methodology developed by Davis and Haltiwanger...

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 estimate central bank reaction functions using the autoregressive conditional hazard model and the autoregressive conditional binomial model. We find that the Federal Reserve and Bundesbank intervened when the market was calmer, and the Bundesbank intervened in response to exchange rates...

This paper investigates the impact of oil price innovations on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing. We estimate a simultaneous equation model that nests symmetric and asymmetric responses of job flows to oil price shocks. We first explore whether the responses of job creation...

This paper explores the effect of tax news on state economic activity. We estimate a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model, which allows us to consider the possibility that unobserved regional factors — such as credit and fiscal conditions — might be relevant for modelling the...