Corporate debt and crisis severity in Europe

Artikel

The aim of this paper is to analyse the financial structure of non-financial corporations in the European Union prior to the 2008 crisis and to determine whether the ex-ante differences in corporate financial structure had an impact on the severity of the 2008 financial crisis in European countries. The analysis confirms a negative relationship between the corporate debt ratio prior to the crisis and crisis-induced contractions in corporate investment and GDP. The results indicate a greater importance of the growth in corporate indebtedness in the years prior to the crisis for crisis vulnerability than solely the level of debt immediately before the crisis. The paper has several important implications for crisis prevention and mitigation policy.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly ; ISSN: 1734-039X ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 35-43 ; Rzeszów: University of Information Technology and Management

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill ; Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity ; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
• Thema: corporate debt ; crisis ; European Union ; financial structure ; growth contractions

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Niemczak, Kinga
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Information Technology and Management
• (wo): Rzeszów
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/147061