The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises

March 1, 2011

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Fabian Valencia, and Luc Laeven. The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed September 20, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

We collect new data to assess the importance of supply-side credit market frictions by studying the impact of financial sector recapitalization packages on the growth performance of firms in a large cross-section of 50 countries during the recent crisis. We develop an identification strategy that uses the financial crisis as a shock to credit supply and exploits exogenous variation in the degree to which firms depend on external financing for investment needs, and focus on policy interventions aimed at alleviating the bank capital crunch. We find that the growth of firms dependent on external financing is disproportionately positively affected by bank recapitalization policies, and that this effect is quantitatively important and robust to controlling for other financial sector support policies. We also find that fiscal policy disproportionately boosted growth of firms more dependent on external financing. These results provide new evidence of a quantitatively important role of credit market frictions in influencing real economic activity.

Subject: Bank resolution, Banking, Creditor bail-in, Financial crises, Fiscal policy

Keywords: Bank assets, Bank liability, Bank support, Book value, Economic activity, Working capital, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

35
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Working Paper No. 2011/045
Stock No:

WPIEA2011045
ISBN:

9781455218974
ISSN:

1018-5941

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