Using a novel financial data-set which covers an extensive time period between 1995-2012, we test for the impact of currency denomination of bonds on Asian firms' survival probabilities. Our data span two financial crises: the 1997-98 Asian crisis and the 2007-09 global financial crisis. We find...

Using granular bank-firm level credit data, we show that the characteristics of bank-firm matches affect firms' access to credit and real outcomes during crises. We identify a set of potential matches in pre-crisis years, and we use them to predict match formation in crisis times. We generate a...

Using a panel of 6,737 US firms over the period 1980-2019, we are the first to explore the role of firm-level drivers in corporate cash policy applying machine learning models. We find that tangible assets and R&D spending contain information about cash holdings when they are considered both...

This paper examines how private equity buyouts affect export activity among target firms around the Brexit period. Using data on UK firms for 2012-2019 and difference-in-differences estimations for matched target versus non-target firms, we assess how the unprecedented Leave vote affects...