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November 18, 2015

Seminar

Banking Globalization, Local Lending and Labor Market Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from Emerging Countries

Date

November 18, 2015
12:00 - 13:15

Location

Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
Room 3.3.002A
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Speakers

Felix Noth, Halle Institute for Economic Research/University of Magdeburg

This paper estimates the effects of banks' foreign exposures on local lending and labor markets in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 world financial crisis for the Brazilian financial systems. The analysis focuses on two dimensions of banks' foreign exposures: foreign ownership and foreign funding. Our results suggest that both exposure dimensions represent distinct transmission mechanisms affecting lending performance on the level of Brazilian municipalities. We are able to trace the transmission channel on the level of the balances sheets of local branches and find that the presence of foreign owned and funded banks affect labor market outcomes in the form of job creation and job destruction. 

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