Political connections and preferential lending at local level: Some evidence from the Italian credit market
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2014.06.003
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Political connections; Banking; Preferential lending; Delegation of lending decisions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
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