“...This paper examines the broader effects of the US financial crisis on global lending to retail customers. In particular we examine retail bank lending in...”

“...Studies have shown that credit rationing hampers firm productivity. However, few studies have focused on the relationships among credit rationing, innovation,...”

“...Capital structure theories are unable to properly explain the zero-debt puzzle, frequently observed in firms around the world. Our paper’s contribution is to...”

“...We investigate whether family businesses (FBs) suffer stiffer credit rationing in the post-crisis Italian economy. FBs are, in fact, typically more opaque than...”

“...VAR analysis on a measure of bank lending standards collected by the Federal Reserve reveals that shocks to lending standards are significantly correlated with...”

“...This article uses empirical evidence from the UK to consider how demand for external finance changed as the economy entered recession and whether external...”

“...This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in...”

“...We study how a bank’s willingness to lend to a previously exclusive firm changes once the firm obtains a loan from another bank (“outside loan”) and breaks an...”

“...Remote sensing and other advances have led to an outpouring of programs that offer index insurance to small scale farmers with the expectation that this...”

“...Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a...”