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Firm dynamics and financial development
This paper studies the impact of cross-country variation in financial market development on firms? financing choices and growth rates using comprehensive firm-level datasets. We document that in less financially developed economies, small firms grow faster and have lower debt to asset ratios than large firms. We then develop a quantitative model where financial frictions drive firm growth and debt financing through the availability of credit and default risk. We parameterize the model to the firms? financial structure in the data and show that financial restrictions can account for the ...
Journal Article
International debt management
Journal Article
Public debt management
Journal Article
Tiger by the tail
Journal Article
Back on even keel
Working Paper
The importance of check-cashing businesses to the unbanked: racial/ethnic differences
The roughly 9.5 percent of all U.S. families that are without some type of transaction account (unbanked) are disproportionately represented by minorities. The unbanked often must rely on alternative ways to carry out basic financial transactions such as cashing payroll checks and paying bills. This study analyzes unique survey data and finds that a consumer's decision to patronize check-cashing businesses is jointly made with the decision to be unbanked. For the unbanked, these businesses are an important source for financial services. Attributes that contribute to these decisions, however, ...
Journal Article
Financing the deficit
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Choosing a Credit Counseling Agency
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Speech
Thoughts on Bastiat (with a nod to Keynes!)
Remarks at the Bastiat?Hoiles Prize Dinner, New York City, NY, November 12, 2011 ; "As Bastiat wrote in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1848, we are at risk of becoming a nation where 'the state is responsible for providing a living for everyone.' The reality is that even if this were desirable, which it is not, pliant fiscal authorities?Republican and Democrat?who have led us down this road for decades find themselves in a financial cul de sac; they have run out of enabling money."