Cai, Jing; Szeidl, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
product, to measure the direct and indirect effects of access to finance. We find that: (1) Access to finance had a large … positive direct effect on the performance of treated firms. (2) Access to finance had a similar-sized negative indirect effect … gains in producer surplus. (3) Access to finance had a positive direct effect on business practices, service quality, and …