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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Manaresi, Francesco (Autor), Pierri, Nicola (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, [2019]
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/19/107.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (76 pages)
ISBN:1498315984
9781498315982