This dissertation examines three research questions on municipal finance and its real effects. First, I study whether one municipality’s bankruptcy exposes other local governments to economic costs of financial contagion. To do so, I utilize bankruptcies that are unrelated to the economic trend. Second, I investigate how corporate investment and employment respond to the supply of private activity bonds. I therefore exploit a legal reform and a bond distribution lottery. Third, I examine the use and the corporate real effects of tax-subsidized green bonds, using a large sample of pollution control bonds.
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This dissertation examines three research questions on municipal finance and its real effects. First, I study whether one municipality’s bankruptcy exposes other local governments to economic costs of financial contagion. To do so, I utilize bankruptcies that are unrelated to the economic trend. Second, I investigate how corporate investment and employment respond to the supply of private activity bonds. I therefore exploit a legal reform and a bond distribution lottery. Third, I examine the use...
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