External Financial Dependence and Firms' Crisis Performance Across Europe

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/111396
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1113967
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-52772
Dokumentart: Article
Date: 2021-01-13
Source: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics ; No. 141
Language: English
Faculty: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Department: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC Classifikation: 330 - Economics
Keywords: Finanzkrise , Europa
Other Keywords:
External financial dependence
financial constraints
financial crisis
firm performance
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Abstract:

How do financial market conditions affect real economic performance? Empirical investigations of this question have often relied on measures of external financial dependence (EFD) that are constructed using U.S. data and applied to other countries under the assumption of a stable industry ranking across countries. This paper exploits unique, comparable survey data from seven European countries to show that correlations of EFD across countries are weak, casting some doubt on this assumption. We then use the novel survey-based EFD index to show that the global financial crisis had a disproportionately negative impact on the real performance of financially dependent firms. Further investigations highlight the importance of supply chains in propagating the credit shock.

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