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Christa Hainz
Researcher at Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Publications - 80
Citations - 2076
Christa Hainz is an academic researcher from Ifo Institute for Economic Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Loan & Collateral. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 80 publications receiving 1948 citations. Previous affiliations of Christa Hainz include University of Michigan & Center for Economic Studies.
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
TL;DR: This article used a border specification and a two-dimensional geographic regression discontinuity design to identify from individuals living within a restricted band around the former border and found that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police.
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Acquisition versus Greenfield: The Impact of the Mode of Foreign Bank Entry on Information and Bank Lending Rates
Sophie Claeys,Christa Hainz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how different entry modes affect the lending rate set by foreign and domestic banks in emerging markets and find empirical support for this differential competition effect for a sample of banks from ten Eastern European countries for the period 1995-2003.
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Political risk, project finance, and the participation of development banks in syndicated lending
Christa Hainz,Stefanie Kleimeier +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that non-recourse project finance loans and the participation of development banks in the loan syndicate help mitigate political risk and show that the terms of the loan contract depend not only on the political risk but also on the legal and institutional environment as well.
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Bank competition and credit markets in transition economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the low degree of bank intermediation by investigating credit offers by monopolistic, oligopolistic, and competitive banks with a particular focus on collateral and find that asymmetric information about the firm's assets and, hence, possible collateral, leads to credit rationing.
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Integrating with Their Feet: Cross-Border Lending at the German-Austrian Border
Jarko Fidrmuc,Christa Hainz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of cross-border lending on the financing conditions of firms at the German-Austrian border was studied and it was shown that distance also matters in cross-currency lending.