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Credit Constraints, Firm Investment and Growth : Evidence from Survey Data
Garcia-Posada, Miguel - 2018
We assess the impact of credit constraints on investment, inventories and other working capital and firm growth with a …, as firms with poor investment and growth opportunities may have a higher probability of being credit constrained. We … implement several strategies to overcome this obstacle: proxies for investment opportunities, lagged regressors, random effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928556
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The Employment Consequences of SMEs’ Credit Constraints in the Wake of the Great Recession
Cornille, David - 2017
This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940882
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The Real Effects of Credit Constraints : Evidence from Discouraged Borrowers in the Euro Area
Ferrando, Annalisa - 2015
This paper uses a new survey-based data set and a model with strong theoretical under-pinnings to explain the characteristics and behaviour of discouraged borrowers in the euro area. The results show that more borrowers are discouraged when the average interest rate charged by banks in a country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016941
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Flight to Liquidity and the Great Recession
Radde, Sören - 2014
This paper argues that counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding by financial intermediaries may strongly amplify business cycles. It develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which banks operate subject to agency problems and funding liquidity risk in their inter- mediation activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048760
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Investing in Crises
Baron, Matthew; Laeven, Luc; Pénasse, Julien; Usenko, … - 2021
We investigate asset returns around banking crises in 44 advanced and emerging economies from 1960 to 2018. In contrast to the view that buying assets during banking crises is a profitable long-run strategy, we find returns of equity and other asset classes generally underperform after banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227328
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Debt Overhang, Rollover Risk, and Corporate Investment : Evidence from the European Crisis
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2019
their investment more after the crisis. This negative effect is stronger for firms linked to weak banks with exposures to … corporate investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892581
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Credit Constraints and Investment in Human Capital : Training Evidence from Transition Economies
Popov, Alexander A. - 2013
general, and to bank credit in particular, is associated with significantly lower investment in on-the-job training. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073659
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Household Saving Behaviour and Credit Constraints in the Euro Area
Le Blanc, Julia - 2015
We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new harmonized data set collecting detailed information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020673
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Financial Constraints and Productivity : Evidence from Euro Area Companies
Ferrando, Annalisa - 2015
We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a unique dataset of firm-level data for several euro area countries during the period 1995-2011. The empirical strategy is twofold. First we build a synthetic indicator of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019618
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The effect of financial development on the investment cash flow relationship: cross-country evidence from Europe
Becker, Bo; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2006
level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are … importantly, the cash flow sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604735