Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Deniz Igan Author-Name-First: Deniz Author-Name-Last: Igan Author-Email:digan@imf.org Author-Workplace-Name: International Monetary Fund and CEPR, 700 19th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20431, United States Author-Name: Thomas Lambert Author-Name-First: Thomas Author-Name-Last: Lambert Author-Email:t.lambert@rsm.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Author-Name: Prachi Mishra Author-Name-First: Prachi Author-Name-Last: Mishra Author-Email:prachi.mishra@ashoka.edu.in Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics and the Isaac Center for Public Policy, Ashoka University Author-Name: Eden Zhang Author-Name-First: Eden Author-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Email: eden.zhang@monash.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Monash University Title: The Politics of the Paycheck Protection Program Abstract: Does partisanship influence loan allocation through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)? We examine the 2020 Presidential campaign contributions by lenders’ employees as a measure of partisanship and leverage the staggered rollout of the PPP under both Trump and Biden administrations to address this question post 2013. length: 48 Creation-Date: 20241104 Revision-Date: Publication-Status: File-URL:/www/wwwashokaeduin_628/public/dp/RePEc/ash/wpaper/paper133_0.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Number: 133 Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:133