This paper documents the emergence of a regional financial cycle in Asia, evidenced by commonality in regional bank flows, and its impact on domestic credit. Using a dataset of 24,169 non-financial Indian firms for the period 2001-2019, we establish that the regional financial cycle has a...

This paper examines the impact of information networks, namely media and social networks on the financial decisions of female-headed households in India. The study analyses the relationship between information channels and household decisions using Bourdieu's relational approach. We find that...