Cultural proximity and loan outcomes

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Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite (2020, background): “2 Recent studies that examine the benefits of these types of connections in China include Cai (2014); Heidenheimer and Johnston (2011); Shih, Adolph, and Liu (2012); Jia, Kudamatsu, and Seim (2015); Wang (2016); and Shih and Lee (2017), who explore their role in promotions in the Chinese bureaucracy”
Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India (2018, background): “Fisman et al. (2014) find that the wealth of state-level politicians in India increases sharply when they narrowly win elections.”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, methodology): “Fisman et al. (2017) use data on individual loans issued by over 4,000 employees of large Indian State Bank over six years. Fisman et al. (2017) exploit the Bank’s rotation policy to test whether loan officers give out more loans when they work in branches whose customers belong to the same religion”
Shadow Banking in a Crisis: Evidence from Fintech During COVID-19 (2021, neutral): “For concision, we only report the difference-in-difference estimator (FINTECH AFTER) in the main text, following Agarwal, Qian, Seru, and Zhang (2020) and Fisman et al. (2017).”