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The paper uses finance and agency theory to establish two main propositions: First, that the conditionality attached to adjustment programs supported by the IMF is justified. Second, that ownership of programs by the borrowing country is crucial for their success. Hence, since both IMF...
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The interaction between credit frictions, financial innovation, and a switch from optimistic to pessimistic beliefs played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium framework in which this interaction drives the financial amplification...
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Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...
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This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our empirical analysis, we build a parsimonious model of bank screening and lending that predicts that IT in banking can spur entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow...
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-binding investment credit limit. Permanent dividend tax reforms distort capital investment decisions in the binding long-run equilibrium …
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-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …
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This paper studies private investment in India against the backdrop of a significant investment decline over the past … decade. We analyze the potential causes of weaker investment at the firm level, using both firm-level financial statements … and a novel dataset on firms' investment project decisions, and find that financial frictions have played a role in the …
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This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp … investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and … economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while explaining aggregate investment activity better than nominal …
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macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows … public finances. It also shows that adaptation investment has large returns in terms of private investment, employment …
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particular focus on the role played by financial frictions and investment dynamics. The paper provides two main contributions …. First, we empirically document that lower investment during financial crises is the key factor leading to permanent loss of …
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