The employment consequences of SMEs' credit constraints in the wake of the great recession
This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate whether and how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the Great Recession is used as an exogenous determinant of firms' access to credit. Two-stage least squares and bivariate probit estimates suggest that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis less healthy banks were significantly more likely to be affected by a credit... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Brussels: National Bank of Belgium
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / C35 / C36 / D22 / G01 / G21 / J21 / J23 / banks' financial health / credit constraints / employment / Great Recession / matchedbank-firm data / Belgium / Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27359653 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/173786 |