Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms

December 12, 2012

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Leandro Medina. Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 4, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that pre-crisis leverage and short-term debt have had negative effects on the speed of the recovery, while asset tangibility has had positive effects. The negative effect of leverage is non-linear, being particularly strong in firms with high pre-crisis leverage. Furthermore, the effects are different for advanced and emerging market economies. The paper also shows that the macroeconomic framework critically matters for firm growth. In particular, in countries that have allowed the exchange rate to depreciate, firms have had a faster recovery in sectors highly dependent on trade.

Subject: Depreciation, Economic sectors, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Manufacturing, National accounts

Keywords: Balance sheet information, Capital structure, Corporate performance, Depreciation, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Financial crisis, Firm resilience, Firms' use, Global, International finance, Leverage, Manufacturing, Recovery, Sample firm, Short-term debt, Short-term debt debt ratio, Trade, WP

Publication Details

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31
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Working Paper No. 2012/292
Stock No:

WPIEA2012292
ISBN:

9781475524734
ISSN:

1018-5941

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