Andrea F. Presbitero

TL;DR: This paper developed an empirical model to predict banking crises in a sample of 60 low-income countries (LICs) over the 1981-2015 period, given the recent emergence of financial sector stress associated with low commodity prices in several LICs, assigning price movements in primary commodities a key role in their model.

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of credit rationing and relationship lending in industrial districts were examined using firm-level data on a sample of Italian SME, showing that firms located in industrial district area have more access to banking credit and rely more on relationship lending, while a higher functional distance from local communities is associated with tighter financing constraints and a lower probability of relationship lending.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), controlling for a large set of fixed effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of raising bank capital requirements on lending in an emerging market and exploring heterogeneous effects, depending on bank characteristics and economic conditions, is explored, and they find that higher capital requirements are associated with lower credit growth in Peru.

TL;DR: This article showed that a higher share of temporary workers appears to reduce the likelihood of future offshoring, once reverse causality and spurious correlation are controlled for with IV techniques, the relationship vanishes.