The impact of COVID-19 on corporate fragility in the United Kingdom: Insights from a new calibrated firm-level Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model:

Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms' balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom (UK). The paper specifically examines the Cor...

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1. Verfasser: Barnes, Sebastian (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hillman, Robert (MitwirkendeR), Wharf, George (MitwirkendeR), MacDonald, Duncan (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2021
Schriftenreihe:OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.1674
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Zusammenfassung:Covid-19 and the associated restrictions on interaction have led to an unprecedented shock to activity and firms' balance sheets. To assess the impact, this paper applies a new large-scale firm-level simulation model calibrated to the United Kingdom (UK). The paper specifically examines the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) furlough program and a credit guarantee. The Corporate Sector Agent-Based (CAB) Model (Hillman, Barnes, Wharf and MacDonald, 2021) takes into account: heterogeneity across firms; interactions between firms across a realistic customer-supplier network; and rule-of-thumb behaviour by firms and bankruptcy constraints. The model amplifies the effect of shocks and generates substantial persistence and overshooting, as well as displaying a number of non-linearities. The CAB uses a data-rich approach based on ORBIS firm-level data and the OECD Input-Output tables. Simulations in this paper are calibrated to the observed path of UK output in 2020.
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DOI:10.1787/b6805eed-en

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