Credit supply and productivity growth
We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bank database covering all the credit relationships of Italian corporations, together with a natural experiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit availability and to estimate a production model au...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.]
International Monetary Fund,
[2019]
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| Series: | IMF working paper ;
WP/19/107. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bank database covering all the credit relationships of Italian corporations, together with a natural experiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit availability and to estimate a production model augmented with financial frictions. We find that a contraction in credit supply causes a reduction of firm TFP growth and also harms IT-adoption, innovation, exporting, and adoption of superior management practices, while a credit expansion has limited impact. Quantitatively, the credit contraction between 2007 and 2009 accounts for about a quarter of observed the decline in TFP. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (76 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1498315984 9781498315982 |