The rise of american ingenuity: Innovation and inventors of the golden age

U Akcigit, J Grigsby, T Nicholas - 2017 - nber.org
We examine the golden age of US innovation by undertaking a major data collection
exercise linking historical US patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching …

Did bank distress stifle innovation during the Great Depression?

R Nanda, T Nicholas - Journal of Financial Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality and trajectory of
firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in …

Banking crises in historical perspective

C Frydman, C Xu - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article surveys the recent empirical literature on historical banking crises, defined as
events taking place before 1980. Advances in data collection and identification have …

Rent seeking in elite networks

R Haselmann, D Schoenherr… - Journal of Political …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
We employ a unique data set on members of an elite service club in Germany to investigate
how social connections in elite networks affect the allocation of resources. Specifically, we …

The effects of banking competition on growth and financial stability: Evidence from the national banking era

M Carlson, S Correia, S Luck - Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
How does banking competition affect credit provision and growth? How does it affect
financial stability? In order to identify the causal effects of banking competition, we exploit a …

Economics and the modern economic historian

R Abramitzky - The Journal of Economic History, 2015 - cambridge.org
My advisor's advisor William Parker organized a session at the 1984 annual meetings of the
American Economic Association (AEA) in Dallas, to discuss the role of economic history in …

Dark matter credit: The development of peer-to-peer lending and banking in France

PT Hoffman - 2019 - torrossa.com
Anemic financial markets mire countries in poverty. There are other reasons why countries
remain poor, but a feeble financial system blocks economic growth; or so both modern …

Multinational banking in Europe–financial stability and regulatory implications: lessons from the financial crisis

GB Navaretti, G Calzolari, AF Pozzolo, M Levi - Economic Policy, 2010 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines whether multinational banks have a stabilizing or a destabilizing role
during times of financial distress. With a focus on Europe, it looks at how these banks' …

The effects of competition in consumer credit markets

S Gissler, R Ramcharan, E Yu - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper finds that banks and nonbanks respond differently to increased competition in
consumer credit markets. Increased competition and a greater threat of failure induces …

Investment strategies and market structure: An empirical analysis of bank branching decisions

A Cohen, MJ Mazzeo - Journal of Financial Services Research, 2010 - Springer
This paper analyzes the relationship between the competitive environment faced by
depository institutions and the decisions these institutions make regarding the size of their …