Arbeitspapier
Who funds zombie firms: Banks or non-banks?
Analyses of zombie firms have emphasised the role of bank financing as the reason for zombie survival. This conclusion was made despite no comparative analysis of the sources of external finance for zombie firms. This paper provides the first analysis of that sort using Finnish data. Surprisingly, the results show quite clearly that there is no connection between zombie survival and bank financing; this result is robust to various measurement and specification issues. Instead, a role is found for owners (i.e. equity funders) in keeping zombies alive in the (often correct) anticipation of the firm recovering.
- ISBN
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978-952-323-431-4
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers ; No. 2/2023
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Intertemporal Firm Choice: Investment, Capacity, and Financing
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
- Subject
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zombie firms
banks
credit constraints
firm-level data
panel data
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Tuuli, Saara
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Finland
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Tuuli, Saara
- Bank of Finland
Time of origin
- 2023
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