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Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closingIWHThe Economist, January 15, 2026
We examine the impact of bank-loan supply shocks on firm outcomes and bank risk-taking employing bank-firm matched credit information for the period 2002-2012.
Using novel job posting data, we construct a human capital-based measure of corporate investments in managing climate risk.
What is the impact of granular credit risk on banks and on the economy? We provide the first causal identification of single-name counterparty exposure risk in bank portfolios by applying a new empirical approach on an administrative matched bank-firm dataset from Norway.