Fiscal Stimulus Impact on Firms' Profitability During the Global Financial Crisis:

Using financial statement data from the Thomson Reuter's Worldscope database for 22,333 non-financial firms in 52 advanced and emerging economies, this paper examines how fiscal stimulus (id est, changes in structural deficit) interacted with sectoral business cycle sensitivity affected corpora...

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Main Authors: Correa-Caro, Carolina (Author), Medina, Leandro (Author), Ribeiro, Marcos Poplawski, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Using financial statement data from the Thomson Reuter's Worldscope database for 22,333 non-financial firms in 52 advanced and emerging economies, this paper examines how fiscal stimulus (id est, changes in structural deficit) interacted with sectoral business cycle sensitivity affected corporate profitability during the recovery period of the global financial crisis (GFC). Using cross-sectional analyses, our findings indicate that corporate profitability improved significantly after the GFC fiscal stimulus, especially in manufacturing, utilities and retail sectors. Firm size and leverage are also found to be significant in explaining changes in corporate profitability.
Physical Description:1 online resource (39 pages)
ISBN:1484387015
9781484387016

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