The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity

By Marialuz Moreno Badia, Veerle Slootmaekers

April 1, 2009

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Marialuz Moreno Badia, and Veerle Slootmaekers. The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 24, 2024

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Summary

The global financial crisis has reopened the debate on the potential spillover effects from the financial sector to the real economy. This paper adds to that debate by providing new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at the role of financial constraints; and (ii) we develop a methodology that corrects for the misspecification problems of previous studies. Our results indicate that young and highly indebted firms tend to be more financially constrained. Overall, a large number of firms shows some degree of financial constraints, with firms in the primary sector being the most constrained. More importantly, we find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors.

Subject: Credit, Currencies, Labor productivity, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Business organization, External finance, Financing constraint, Input decision, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

39
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Working Paper No. 2009/072
Stock No:

WPIEA2009072
ISBN:

9781451872194
ISSN:

1018-5941

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