This paper analyses the role of relationship banking during the financial crisis in Germany. On the basis of 4504 German firms, I investigate empirically how close and long-lasting relationships between banks and firm clients helped to mitigate a potential credit rationing at that time. I...

This paper analyses the relationship between human development and migration. In particular, it tests whether migration as a function of human development follows an inverted U-shaped curve, known as mobility transition. Understanding this relationship is important, since many Western...