The real effects of financial sector interventions during crises
Laeven,L. Valencia,F.
Laeven,L.
Valencia,F.
Abstract
We assess the importance of supply-side credit market frictions by studying the impact of bank recapitalization on firm growth in 50 countries during the recent crisis. Our identification strategy exploits the crisis as a shock to credit supply and combines an exogenous measure of firms’ dependence on external financing with policy interventions aimed at restoring bank capital. We find that the growth of financially dependent firms is disproportionately positively affected by bank recapitalization. This effect is quantitatively important and robust to controlling for other policies. These results provide new evidence of the influence of credit market frictions on economic activity.
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2013
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SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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Laeven, L & Valencia, F 2013, 'The real effects of financial sector interventions during crises', Journal of Money Credit and Banking, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 147-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-4616.2012.00565.x