Arbeitspapier

Got rejected? Real effects of not getting a loan

Using a lender cut-off rule that generates plausibly exogenous variation in credit supply, I analyze real effects of loan rejections in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises. I find that loan rejections reduce asset growth, investments, and employment, and these effects are concentrated among low liquidity firms. Precautionary savings motives aggravate real effects: firms whose loan applications got rejected increase cash holdings and cut non-cash assets in excess of the requested loan amount. These results point to the amplifying effect of precautionary savings motives in the transmission of credit supply shocks.

ISBN
978-92-899-2208-1
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 1960

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Labor Demand
Thema
credit supply
liquidity demand
precautionary savings
real effects

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Berg, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.2866/851202
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Berg, Tobias
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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