Electoral cycles in savings bank lending

Till Stowasser and Florian Englmaier

VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We provide causal evidence that German savings banks where local politicians are by law involved in their management systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states and the existence of a control group of cooperative banks that are very similar to savings banks but lack their political connectedness allow for clean identification of causal effects of county elections on savings banks lending. These effects are economically meaningful and robust to various specifications. Moreover, politically induced lending increases in incumbent party entrenchment and in the contestedness of upcoming elections.

JEL-codes: D72 D73 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Electoral Cycles in Savings Bank Lending (2017)
Working Paper: Electoral cycles in savings bank lending (2014)
Working Paper: Electoral Cycles in Savings Bank Lending (2013)
Working Paper: Electoral cycles in savings bank lending (2013)
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