Do incumbents manipulate access to finance during banking crises?:

"The author tests the hypothesis that during systemic banking crises, access to finance is opportunistically tightened by incumbents to eliminate or weaken competition from mainly young firms. He finds this to be especially true in more corrupt countries. To do so, he uses a methodology similar...

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Main Author: Feijen, Erik 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C] World Bank 2005
Series:Policy research working paper 3660
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"The author tests the hypothesis that during systemic banking crises, access to finance is opportunistically tightened by incumbents to eliminate or weaken competition from mainly young firms. He finds this to be especially true in more corrupt countries. To do so, he uses a methodology similar to Rajan and Zingales (1998) on three-digit manufacturing industry-level data provided by the United Nations Statistics Division for about 15 industrial and developing countries in over 20 industries on average. The author shows that price-cost margins in externally more financially dependent industries are higher during crisis than in externally less dependent industries in countries with higher levels of corruption. He finds the opposite relationship for the change in the industry-level number of establishments during a crisis. The results withstand an array of robustness checks, including using different indices of corruption, different controls, and robust estimation techniques. "--World Bank web site
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/19/2005
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2005]
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (46 Seiten)